The Inequality of Man and Nature

"Crying out at the strongest would oppress the weakest but let them explain what they mean by the word oppression one man will rule with violence and other will grown under a constant subjection to all his caprices this is indeed precisely what I observe among us," he writes. "I don't see how it can be said of savage men into whose heads it would be a harder matter to drive even the meaning of the words domination and servitude" He goes on to say that as the bonds of servitude are formed merely by the mutual dependence of men one upon another it is impossible for one man to enslave another without having first reduced him to a condition in which he cannot live without