Discourse on the Origin of Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau [Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: philosophy, History & Surveys, Modern, Literary Criticism, General, Renaissance, political science, History & Theory
ISBN: 9780199555420
Google: 8n4uPwAACAAJ
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2009-04-23T00:28:05.009551+00:00

† This no doubt explains why Negroes and savages ace so unconcerned by the wild animals they encounter in the woods. In this regard, the Caribs of Venezuela live among others in the profoundest security and without the least trouble. Though they are all but naked, says François,Coréal,* they do not hesitate to show themselves boldly in the woods, armed only with a bow and arrow; but one has never heard of any of them being devoured by beasts.Added 1782.

† Celsus* reports that dieting, so necessary today, was first invented by Hippocrates. Added 1782.

† There may be some exceptions to this: for example, the animal in the province of Nicaragua that resembles a fox, with feet like a man's hands and, according to Coréal, a pouch under its belly where the mother puts her young whenever she is obliged to flee. This is doubtless the same animal that in Mexico is called the 'tlaquatzin', the female of which is said by Laët* to have a similar pouch for the same purpose. Added 1782.

‡ the present infinitive 1782.

‡ for the first idea inferred in observing two things is that they are not the same, and it often takes a good deal of time to observe what they have in common Added 1782.

† They are like the bloodthirsty Sulla, who was so sensitive to suffering he was not responsible for, or like Alexander of Pherae, who dared not attend the performance of any tragedy, lest he be seen sobbing with Andromache and Priam, although he could listen impassively to the screams of all the citizens whose throats were cut daily on his orders. Mollilssima Corda Humano genri dare ae Natura fatetur Quac lacrimas dedit* Added 1781.

† distaste 1782.

† constitution Added 1782.

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