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" THE first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. "
The Manual of Liberty, Or, Testimonies in Behalf of the Rights of Mankind ... - Page 297
1795 - 406 pages
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Karl Marx and the Future of the Human

Cyril Smith - History - 2005 - 248 pages
...their obligations. (Political Economy.) The first man who. having enclosed a piece of land, thought of saying "This is mine" and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. How many crimes, wars, murders; how much misery and horror the human...
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The Trouble with Music

Mathew Callahan - Music - 2005 - 276 pages
...CHfiINS flND MUSIC RND OWNERSHIP DOMflINS The first man who, having enclosed a piece of land, thought of saying, "This is mine" and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. How many crimes, wars, murders, how much misery and horror the human...
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Arguing with Anthropology: An Introduction to Critical Theories of the Gift

Karen Margaret Sykes - Social Science - 2005 - 268 pages
...enclosure of common land as private property: The first man, having enclosed a piece of land thought of saying 'this is mine' and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. How many crimes, wars, murders: how much misery and horror the human...
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Denaturalizing Ecological Politics: Alienation from Nature from Rousseau to ...

Andrew Biro - Political Science - 2005 - 265 pages
...by declaring that 'the first man who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society' (60; emphasis in original). But Rousseau is quick to point out that...
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Democratic Faith

Patrick Deneen - Political Science - 2009 - 389 pages
...indication: "The first person, who, having fenced off a plot of ground, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human...
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Political Theory

VD Mahajan - Political Science - 2006 - 936 pages
...the words of Rousseau, "The first man who after enclosing a piece of ground, bethought himself to say 'this is mine', and found people simple enough to...believe him, was the real founder of civil society. "The arts of agriculture and metallurgy were discovered and in the application of them men had need...
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Cultural Landscapes

Gabriel R. Ricci - Religion - 130 pages
...injustice in The Origins of Inequality (1754). "The first man who, having enclosed a piece of land, thought of saying "this is mine' and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society," Rousseau asserted. "How many crimes, wars, murders: how much misery...
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Advocate of Government by Consent

James R. Norton - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2005 - 116 pages
...section of his essay, Rousseau states: The first man who, having enclosed a piece of land, thought of saying "This is mine" and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. How many crimes, war, murders; how much misery and horror the human...
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Rousseau: The Sentiment of Existence

David Gauthier - History - 2006 - 191 pages
...declaration: The first person who, having fenced off a plot of ground, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human...
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Family Feuds: Wollstonecraft, Burke, and Rousseau on the Transformation of ...

Eileen Hunt Botting - Social Science - 2012 - 268 pages
...sardonically proclaims, "The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society." 48 He then explains that it is the development of huts that was the...
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