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A DISCOURSE

ON A SUBJECT PROPOSED BY THE

ACADEMY OF DIJON:

WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF INEQUALITY AMONG

MEN, AND IS IT AUTHORIZED BY

NATURAL LAW?

Non in depravatis, sed in his quae bene secundum naturam

se habent, considerandum est quid sit naturale.

ARISTOTLE, Politics, Bk. i, ch. 2. [We should consider what is natural not in things which are depraved but in those which are rightly ordered according to nature.]