A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Part I.
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The Difference Between Man and Beast
Some philosophers have even advanced that there is a greater difference between some man and others. It is not therefore so much that understanding the constitutes among animals the specific distinction of man as his quality of a free agent. Man feels the same impression, but he at the same time perceives that he is free to resist or to acquiesce. In the consciousness of this liberty that the spirituality of his soul chiefly appears. Nothing can be discovered but acts that are purely spiritual and cannot be accounted for by the laws of mechanics.
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