This is one of the origins of the romantic movement, considered in Chapter 30. And it was this which separated man from the animals. ‘Some actual savage societies, like the Carib, preserve a happy balance between “the indolence of the primitive state and the petulant activity of our vanity”. Other societies developed iron and corn, “which have civilised men, and ruined the human race”. Manufacturing and agriculture created a division of labour and, through labour, property and inequality…men became what they once were not–deceivers, exploiters, legislators of inequality, defenders of
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