Essays on the Origin of Society, Language, Property, Government, Jurisdiction, Contracts, and Marriage: Interspersed with Illustrations from the Greek and Galic LanguagesB. Millan, 1785 - 208 pages |
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... interests . They have a sense of common danger : wars and dissensions prevail among them : they appear armed for each other's destruction : their breasts are , in times of contention , filled with the most implacable ani- mofities ...
... interests . They have a sense of common danger : wars and dissensions prevail among them : they appear armed for each other's destruction : their breasts are , in times of contention , filled with the most implacable ani- mofities ...
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... interests had found place in the human mind . While Nature , without the exertion of art or industry , had furnished food fufficient to fupply the wants of the whole human fpecies , the means of fubfiftence were enjoyed by all in common ...
... interests had found place in the human mind . While Nature , without the exertion of art or industry , had furnished food fufficient to fupply the wants of the whole human fpecies , the means of fubfiftence were enjoyed by all in common ...
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... interest in himself , separate and diftinct from that of the fociety of which he formed a constituent member . With his fellows he was united in all measures for mutual fafety . The means of subsistence were common to all . Exclufive ...
... interest in himself , separate and diftinct from that of the fociety of which he formed a constituent member . With his fellows he was united in all measures for mutual fafety . The means of subsistence were common to all . Exclufive ...
Page 159
... tions of exclufive property : the mind of the * Taciti Hift . 1. iii . c . 48. See Falconer's Influence of Climate , & c . book vi . chap . 1 . latter latter has learned to feparate his interest from that of OF CONTRACTS . 159.
... tions of exclufive property : the mind of the * Taciti Hift . 1. iii . c . 48. See Falconer's Influence of Climate , & c . book vi . chap . 1 . latter latter has learned to feparate his interest from that of OF CONTRACTS . 159.
Page 160
... interest from that of the public . In proportion as the selfish principle operates on the human will , the love of equality , which forms a distinguishing cha- racteristic of favage tribes , fuffers a decay . The engagements of a favage ...
... interest from that of the public . In proportion as the selfish principle operates on the human will , the love of equality , which forms a distinguishing cha- racteristic of favage tribes , fuffers a decay . The engagements of a favage ...
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