A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Part I.
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The Fatal Proofs of Human Diseases
The man who meditates is a depraved animal. We need only call to mind the good constitution of savages, of those at least whom we have not destroyed by our strong liquors. Neither is the human species more to be pitied in this respect than any other species of animals. Man therefore, in a state of nature where there are so few sources of sickness, can have no great occasion for physic, and still less for physicians.
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