14 -------------------------------------------------------------------- People : ---------------------------------- Author : Jean Jacques Rousseau : The Social Contract, or the Principles of Right Text : ---------------------------------- We are told that the jugglers of Japan dismember a child before the eyes of the spectators; then they throw all the members into the air one after another, and the child falls down alive and whole. The conjuring tricks of our political theorists are very like that; they first dismember the body politic by an illusion worthy of a fair, and then join it together again we know not how. From : Book 2, Chapter 2. Events : ---------------------------------- 14 -- Added : April 07, 2020 14 -- Updated : July 13, 2022 About This Textfile : ---------------------------------- Text file generated from : http://RevoltSource.com/