Source: David Hume, “Justice,”A Treatise of Human Nature in The Philosophic Works of David Hume 4 vols. vol. 2 Edinburgh: Adam Black and William Tait and Charles Tait, Fleet Street,
When we consider how nearly equal all men are in their bodily force, and even in their mental powers and faculties, till cultivated by education, we must necessarily allow that
XVI.DAVID HUME, OF THE ORIGINAL CONTRACT, 1752When we consider how nearly equal all men are in their bodily force, and even in their mental powers and faculties, till cultivated by