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COMMON SENSE.  ABBE RAYNAL.  “Some writers have so confounded “Care must be taken not to confound society With government, as to leave together society with government. little or no distinction between them; That they may be known distinctly, whereas they are not only different, their origin should be considered. but have different origins.

“Society is produced by our wants, “Society originates in the wants of and governments by our wickedness; men, government in their vices. the former promotes our happiness Society tends always to good; government positively, by uniting our affections; ought always to tend to the the latter negatively, by restraining repressing of evil.” our vices.”

In the following paragraphs there is less likeness in the language, but the ideas in the one are evidently copied from the other.

“In order to gain a clear and just “Man, thrown, as it were by idea of the design and end of government, chance upon the globe, surrounded let us suppose a small number by all the evils of nature, obliged of persons, meeting in some frequented continually to defend and protect his part of the earth, unconnected life against the storms and tempests with the rest; they will then represent of the air, against the inundations of the peopling of any country or water, against the fire of volcanoes, of the world.  In this state of natural against the intemperance of frigid liberty, society will be our first and torrid zones, against the sterility thought.  A thousand motives will of the earth which, refuses him aliment, excite them thereto.  The strength of or its baneful fecundity, which one man is so unequal to his wants, makes poison spring up beneath his and his mind so unfitted for perpetual feet; in short against the claws and solitude, that he is soon obliged to teeth of savage beasts, who dispute seek assistance of another, who, in with him his habitation and his prey, his turn, requires the same.  Four or and attacking his person, seem resolved five united would be able to raise to render themselves rulers of a tolerable dwelling in the midst of a this globe, of which he thinks himself wilderness; but one man might to be the master.  Man, in this labour out the common period of life, state, alone and abandoned to himself, without accomplishing any thing; could do nothing for his preservation. when he has felled his timber, he It was necessary, therefore, could not remove it, nor erect it after that he should unite himself, and associate it was removed; hunger, in the with his like, in order to mean time would, urge him from his bring together their strength and intelligence