In the canon
Discourse on Inequality
- Form
- Form Philosophy
- Year
- Year 1755
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 140
Someone drives a stake into a field, draws a line around it, says this is mine, and finds people simple enough to believe him. Rousseau builds his entire case on that gesture, and on the man who never came, the one who might have pulled up the stakes and cried that the fruits of the earth belong to everyone and the earth itself to nobody.
The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him
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