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Author : Adam Ferguson
: An Essay on the History of Civil Society
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Neither the ascendancy of the multitude, nor that of the tyrant, will secure the administration of justice; neither the license of mere tumult, nor the calm of dejection and servitude, will teach the citizen that he was born for candor and affection to his fellow creatures. And if the speculative would find that habitual state of war which they are sometimes pleased to honor with the name of "the state of nature", they will find it in the contest that subsists between the despotical prince and his subjects...
From : Part 1, Section X..
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