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Equality
& Locke

Under the authority of the father, and his assistant
and prime Minister the mother, every human-nature
is inured to subjection, is trained up
into a habit of obedience subjection. But the habit once formed
nothing is easier than to transform it from an object the transforming it from object to object is a matter of
It is in the bosom of a family that man serve an apprenticeship to government
to another with difficulty . Without domestic the previous
establishment formation of domestic government, blood only
and probably a long course of it could have
formed political government. By the of it
nothing is more easy. What renders it the easier
is that in the political government the dependence
is not near so close. as in the domestic The more frequently
the occasion for examining control occurs
the stricter closer is the dependence, the more galling
the chains. But in no instance government do the occasions
for excusing contract occurs as frequently as
between magistrate and subject , between father
and child or master & servant in the bosom of
a family. No government so despotic but that
a youth gains more in point of liberty by passing
out of power of his father than he has
by passing so much the more immediately under the
power of the sovereign. Even in Russia through
a sort of domestic servitude under a Lord is coupled with subjection political
to an absolute sovereign, the condition of a youth whose [+] [+] migrates from his Father's cottage to
gets a unfurnished cottage with a wife in it of his own is still
as a sort of through his subjection to his
Lord as well as to the Sovereign remains undiminished.


Identifier: | JB/100/109/001
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Date_1

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100

Main Headings

civil code

Folio number

109

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001

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Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

e5

Penner

jeremy bentham

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Paper Producer

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Notes public

ID Number

32125

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