Rousseau, Jean Jacques. 1909–14. On the Inequality among Mankind. Vol. 34, Part 3. The Harvard Classics

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Even the soberest judged it requisite to sacrifice one part of their liberty to ensure the other, as a man, dangerously wounded in any of his limbs, readily parts with it to save the rest of his body.

—Second Part

Jean Jacques
Rousseau

Harvard Classics, Vol. 34, Part 3

A Discourse upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality among Mankind

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The movers of the French Revolution would embrace the ideas elaborated in this work written for a philosophical competition.

CONTENTS

Bibliographic Record

NEW YORK: P.F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, 1909–14
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2001

Introductory Note: Introduction; First Part; Second Part

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