ISBN: 9781458989598

Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by General Books LLC Books Books Universal-classics-library-Volume-18~~Oliver-Herbrand-Gordon-Leigh General Books LLC … More...

Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by General Books LLC Books Books Universal-classics-library-Volume-18~~Oliver-Herbrand-Gordon-Leigh General Books LLC Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER I. Subject Of The First Book. Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Many a one believes himself the master of others, and yet he is a greater slave than they. How has this change come about ? I do not know. What can render it legitimate ? I believe that I can settle this question. If I considered only force and the results that proceed from it, I should say that so long as a people is compelled to obey and does obey, it does well; but that, so soon as it can shake off the yoke and does shake it off, it does better; for, if men recover their freedom by virtue of the same right by which it was taken away, either they are justified in resuming it, or there was no justification for depriving them of it. But the social order is a sacred right which serves as a foundation for all others. This right, however, does not come from nature. It is therefore based on conventions. The question is to know what these conventions are. Before coming to that, I must establish what I have just laid down. CHAPTER II. Primitive Societies. The earliest of all societies, and the only natural one, is the family; yet children remain attached to their father only so long as they have need of him for their own preservation. As soon as this need ceases, the natural bond is dissolved. The children being freed from the obedience which they owed to their father, and the father from the cares which he owed to his children, become equally independent. If they remain united, it is no Rousseau's endeavor in chapters 2 to 4 is to establish that freeborn men have fallen into slavery.? Ed. longer naturally but voluntarily; and the family itself is kept together only by convention. This common liberty is a consequence of man's nature. His first law is to attend to his own pr...<

ISBN: 1458989593

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