BOOK III PART II
SECTIONII. OF THEORIGIN OFJUSTICE
ANDPROPERTY
We now proceed to examine two questions,
viz,concerning the manner, in which the rules of
justice are established by the artifice of men; and
concerning the reasons, of which determine us to at-
tribute to the observance or neglect of these rules a
moral beauty and deformity. These questions will
appear afterwards to be distinct. We shall be-
gin with the former.
Of all the animals, with which this globe
is peopled, there is none towards whom na-
ture seems, at first sight, to have exercised
more cruelty than towards man, in the number-
less wants and necessities, with which she has
loaded him, and in the slender means, which
she affords to the relieving these necessities.