Reflection
Added 2021-12-16 13:02:02 +0000 UTC„While men were content with their rustic huts, while sewing their fur clothes with thorns or wooden edges, decorating themselves with feathers and shells, painting their bodies in different colors, perfecting or beautifying theirs. bows and arrows, carving with sharp stones, some fishing canoes or crude musical instruments; in a word, as they applied exclusively to works that only one could do, and those arts that did not require the assistance of many hands, they lived free, healthy, good and happy, as far as their nature could be, and continued to enjoy each other. of the sweetness of an independent coexistence. But from the moment one man needed help from another; since we realized that it was useful for one to have provisions for two, equality disappeared, property introduced itself, work became necessary, and how vast forests became smiling fields that had to be watered with the sweat of men, and which, soon, saw the germination of slavery and misery, growing with the harvest. "
