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PITHY QUOTE FROM Rousseau: Complete Works
If we follow the progress of inequality in these different revolutions, we will find that the establishment of the law and the right of property was its first term, the institution of the magistracy the second, that the third and last was the change of the legitimate power into arbitrary power; so that the state of rich and poor was authorized by the first epoch, that of powerful and weak by the second, and by the third that of master and slave, which is the last degree of inequality and the end to which all the others finally arrive, until new revolutions completely dissolve the Government, or bring it closer to the legitimate institution.
The Complete Works of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Volume 1: Political Works. Discourse on the origin and foundations of inequality among men; second part.
The Complete Works of Jean Jacques Rousseau
ISBN: 978-1-57085-304-3
Language: English
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Portrait by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, 1753
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The Complete Works of Jean Jacques Rousseau. In Geneva: [1780]-1782 & 1789. Complete in 17 vols. Famous edition published by the Société typographique de Genève, containing the first part of the Confessions in the original edition. The text was established by Pierre Moultou and Du Peyrou. Edition printed simultaneously in three formats, the in-4 edition being the most prestigious. The 15 vols. were completed in 1789 by 2 additional vols. containing the second part of the Confessions. On an experimental basis, we have created a Google AI translation into English of all 17 volumes. Each page of the English translation is linked to the French of Rousseau. While the English translation is far from perfect, it can be used as a basis for searches, and the translation demonstrates how far AI translation has evolved. The French was originally digitized by the University of Geneva library (Bibliothèque de Genève: see https://www.e-rara.ch/gep_r/content/structure/2248445). Every page of the searchable text is linked to the image of the page in the original 18th century edition (Collection Complete des Œuvres de J.J. Rousseau, Citoyen de Geneve. Edited by Pierre-Alexandre de Peyrou and Pierre Moultou. 17 volumes. Genève: Société typographique de Genève, 1780-1789.) |
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