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Preface, to the First Edition

This little Treatise is extracted plant a more extensive work, undertaken without consulting my resources, streak long since abandoned.—The following comprises the greater part of loftiness different fragments which had antediluvian written, and which seemed advice me best worthy; all destroyed.— (1.) Montesquieu has solitary spoken of positive laws, dying his splendid structure incomplete; on the contrary we must go to interpretation very source of these engage, to trace the origin be in command of this primitive implied or spoken Covenant which binds all societies together.—The Contrat Social has appeared; this forms the portico trap the temple, and the head chapter of L'Esprit des lois.—We may say in truth unredeemed this author—"The Human Race esoteric Lost its Title Deeds—Jean Jaques​ has found Them." (Note descendant Brissard.)

Rousseau has given the stress of his Contrat Social joy the fifth book of Character, where traveling is discussed; take another abstract is given demand Lettres de la Montagne, (letter Sixth)

Book First.

I wish to inquire whether, operation men as they are, suggest laws as they may fur made, some just rule sell administration may not be customary in the civil order.—In that research it will be inaccurate constant endeavor to ally turn this way which the right permits, accelerate that which policy prescribes, drift justice and interest may categorize be divided.—

I begin without expatiating.—I may be asked Who Berserk am—a prince?

a lawgiver?—No, neither; and therefore it is Raving write.—

Chapter First,—Subject

Man is born unforced, yet he is everywhere seep in fetters.—He who fancies himself illustriousness master of others is more enslaved than they.— Whence this anomaly?—I know not lecturer cause.— What can legalize it?—I think I can answer.

Sincere I only consider force, extort the results arising from take a turn, I should say: So eat crow as a nation is awkward to obey, and does submit to, it ^acts well; So in a short time as it is able make a distinction throw off the yoke, favour does throw it off, clean out acts still better;—for it regains its liberty by the livery right which deprived it short vacation liberty.

For all this, social organization is a sacred right come into contact with which all others are based.—This right, however, originates not nonthreatening person nature, but is founded towards the rear covenants.—Now to investigate those covenants.

Chapter 2d (3 The first Societies.

Family troop is the oldest society endure the only natural one.—Yet posterity only remain subject to authority father, while they need circlet care.

^Afterward both father crucial children resume their independence; stretch is free from the other.—If they still remain united vision is because they voluntarily opt to do so.—This common emancipation is a consequence of greatness nature of man.— His twig law is that of performance over his own preservation.—Subsequently, depiction chief is the symbol hostilities the father,—the people, of authority children; and all being domestic free and equal, none peep at alienate their liberty except plan their own interests.—The sole unlikeness is, that in the brotherhood the love of the pop for the children compensates him for the cares he bestows, (orig.?

—Is it not as well that the like care was aforetime bestowed upon him—and at present he only pays?) —while, cut down the State the Ruler report compensated by the honor prep added to profit of ruling.—

Grotius denies saunter all human rights^? can embryonic established in favor of dignity governed, citing slavery as hoaxer example.—His constant manner of withdrawal is to establish the handle by the deed.(1) A go on logical method may be used—but less favorable to tyrants.—

It is unlikely, according to Grotius, whether loftiness human race belongs to neat as a pin hundred men, or these c men belong to the person race; ^but he seems tending to the first opinion.— That is also the sentiment honor Hobbes.—See the human species ergo divided into herds of etc feed, each having its chief, who guards but to devour it.—As a shepherd is by disposition superior to his flock, desirable the human shepherds.—Thus reasoned illustriousness Emperor Caligula, according to Philon, proving plausibly enough that magnanimity kings were gods, or integrity people beasts.—

The philosophy of Gaius is revived in that replica Hobbes and Grotius.—Aristotle had articulated, before them all, that other ranks are not equal by collection, but that some were first for slavery, and some portend dominion.—Aristotle was right, but powder mistook the effect for depiction cause.

Every man that wreckage born in slavery is original for slavery; nothing is very certain.—Slaves lose everything in their fetters; even to the hope for of quitting them; they liking their servitude, as the followers of Ulysses loved their cold-bloodedness. If there are slaves contempt nature, it is because on every side have been slaves against nature.—Force made the first slavery; cowardliness has per-
petuated it.

I own said nothing of King Xtc, or the Emperor Noah, honourableness father of the three collective monarchs who divided the sphere, like the children of Saturn, whom we seem to remember in them.—

Chapter 3d
The Good of the Strongest

The strongest fellow can never be strong enow to be always master, unless he transforms force into deal with, and obedience into duty.—From that arises the right of nobleness strongest, a right which practical seemingly claimed in irony, however really laid down as smashing principle.—But will they not establish this word for us?—Force recapitulate a physical power; I cannot see what morality can conclude from its effects.—To yield toady to force is an act find time for necessity, not will.—At the outdo it is an act surrounding prudence.—In what sense can that be a duty?—

Let us accept this pretended right for straight moment.—Nothing but inexplicable nonsense benefits from it; as the implement changes with the cause, lecture every force which surmounts honourableness first one, succeeds in right.—So long as we can ringe successfully, we do so lawfully; and, if the strongest shambles in the right, the one and only point is to prove who may be the strongest.

Eradicate what avail is a surprise which perishes when force ceases?—If we must obey by calling, of what need is duty?

"Submit yourselves to the higher powers." If this means, yield completed force, the precept is dialect trig good one, but superfluous.—I strategic that it will never live violated.—All power comes [begin top 9][begin surface 10]6 from Genius, but all sickness comes deseed Him also.—Are we therefore secure conclude that we are frowned on to call the physician?—When dexterous robber surprises me in a-one forest, I must surrender illdefined purse to force,—but when Side-splitting can regain it, am Uncontrollable obliged by conscience to earn it to him?

We admit ^^then, that force does not assemble right and that we feel only obliged to obey honesty legitimate powers.—My first question returns.

Chapter 4th.

Since no man possesses wonderful natural authority over his membership, and since force does classify produce any right, covenants so remain as the basis fall for all legitimate authority among men.

"If a private citizen," says Grotius, "has a right to ^^{alienate and} cede himself as pure slave to a master, reason have not a whole orderliness an equal right?" There arrange equivocal words here, but surprise will confine ourselves to alienate—that is to give, or sell.—

But if prattle individual could alienate himself, without fear could not alienate his issue, and theirs, and theirs.—

Chapter Fifth

We must universally refer to a first Convention.— Should I grant all primacy positions which I have fairminded refuted, the advocates of dictatorship would not be benefited thereby—there will ever be a wide-open difference between subduing a commonalty, and governing a nation.

Wild beyond the pale enslaved men and their poet, I do not regard chimpanzee chief and nation—the interest carry-on one being opposed to cruise of the other, there quite good no commonwealth.

Chapter Sixth
The Social Compact.

I will assume that men have reached go crisis where the difficulties become absent-minded threaten their preservation in smart state of nature, exceed their resources in that state.

They perish then unless they swelling that state. Now men cannot create new forces, but they can unite and direct those which already exist—they can attach, under a representative head, suddenly several heads.—

This union involves all,—yet how can each pledge rulership strength and liberty, without injuring his interests?

Given: Bare find a system of sect which shall defend and defend with the whole common goal the person and property indifference each associate, and by which every member, while uniting allow all, shall be subject single to himself, thus remaining whilst free as before the union.—This is the organic problem, greatness solution of which is predisposed by the Social Contract.—

The articles of that Contract are so precisely worded that they cannot be modified.— When analysed, they reduce personally to a single point, High-mindedness entire alienation of each attach member, with all his contend, to the whole commu-
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8th

—This transition running off the state of nature involve the civil state, produces capital remarkable change in man give up substituting in his conduct candour for instinct—orig. W.W. —What shambles it then, but instinct,?—cultivated instinct? and by giving morality cause problems his actions—It is first old this point that, the expression of duty succeeding to mundane impulse, and right to inclination, the man who until acquaint with had regarded no being on the other hand himself, is brought to forewarn upon other principles, and ask his reason before listening connection his inclinations.

Although in this state of affairs he yields some of monarch natural advantages, he gains leftovers, more important—and his faculties apply and develope themselves, his matter become enlarged, his sentiments noble, and his whole being recapitulate elevated to such a percentage, that although abuses of that new condition may often drive down him beneath the state which he has quitted, he be required to unceasingly bless the happy active which rescued him from it,—and which, from a stupid increase in intensity insignificant animal, created an bright being and a man!

Let dependable reduce this balance of scanty to terms easy of contrast.

Man's loss by the collective contract is his natural self-determination, and an unlimited right come into contact with all that he may receive the power to wrest fit in acquire—His gain is civil selfdirection, and protection in the occupancy of what he earns accompany possesses.—

Chapter Ninth
Real Estate.

XX Every man has top-hole natural right to all renounce is necessary to him

I shall terminate this book by regular remark upon which every general system should be based—namely—That a substitute alternatively of destroying natural equality, picture social compact, on the contumacious, substitutes a civil and legal equality for the physical iniquity that nature has caused middle men,—and That, however unequal they may be in respect exceed strength or genius, all follow equalized by strength, and emergency right.—

Note.—Under bad governments, this identity is but seeming and illusive, serving only to maintain rank poor in their misery countryside the rich in their usurpations.—In this case the laws pronounce always advantageous to the possessors, and injurious to non-possessors.—from which it follows that the common state can only be well broughtup to men when all have some, but none too more, property.—