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Of the Temporary Efforts and Relaxations of the National Spirit
SECTION III. Of Relaxations in the National Spirit incident to Polished
Nations
SECTION IV. The same subject continued
SECTION V. Of National Waste
PART VI. OF CORRUPTION AND POLITICAL SLAVERY.
SECTION I. Of corruption in general
SECTION II. Of Luxury
SECTION III. Of the Corruption incident to Polished Nations
SECTION IV. The same subject continued
SECTION V. Of Corruption, as it tends to Political Slavery
SECTION VI. Of the Progress and Termination of Despotism
AN ESSAY
ON THE
HISTORY OF CIVIL SOCIETY.
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PART FIRST.
OF THE GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF HUMAN NATURE.

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SECTION I.
OF THE QUESTION RELATING TO THE STATE OF NATURE.

Natural productions are generally formed by degrees. Vegetables are raised
from a tender shoot, and animals from an infant state. The latter, being
active, extend together their operations and their powers, and have a
progress in what they perform, as well as in the faculties they acquire.


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