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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Government in its infancy had no regular and permanent form. For want of a sufficient fund of philosophy and experience, men could see no further than the present inconveniences, and never thought of providing remedies for future ones, but in proportion as they arose.”

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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