Collier's New Encyclopedia

A complete general encyclopedia of 1921 — the world as it was understood just after the Great War, from Aachen to Zwingli, across twelve volumes and six thousand pages.

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Social Contract

or ORIGINAL CONTRACT, that imaginary bond of SOCIAL CONTRACT, or ORIGINAL union which keeps mankind together, and ness and dependence. Jean Jacques Rouswhich consists in a sense of mutual weakseau maintained that the natural and when he possesses complete con liberty, and proper state of man is the savage state, that every social organization is an inthat every social organization is an inlieved are born equal, and society is on the subject prepared the way for the founded on a social contract. His views three Revolution

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