The Induction of Savages

It is society alone which has added even to love itself as well as all the other passions that impetuous ardour so often renders its fatal to mankind. The imagination which causes so many ravages among us never speaks to the heart of savages who peaceably wait for the impulses of nature yield to these impulses without choice and with more pleasure than fury. In spring particularly cause our forests to ring again with the noise they make in disputing their females. We must begin by excluding all those species where nature has evidently established and the relative power of the sexes relations different from those which exist among us.