BOOK II PART III
of quality: So are his sentiments, actions and
manners. The different stations of life influence
the whole fabric, external and internal; and dif-
ferent stations arise necessarily, because uni-
formly, from the necessary and uniform prin-
ciples of human nature. Men cannot live with-
out society, and cannot be associated without
government. Government makes a distinction
of property, and establishes the different ranks
of men. This produces industry, traffic, manu-
factures, law-suits, war, leagues, alliances, voy-
ages, travels, cities, fleets, ports, and all those
other actions and objects, which cause such a
diversity, and at the same time maintain such
an uniformity in human life.
Should a traveller, returning from a far coun-
try, tell us, that he had seen a climate in the fifti-
eth degree of northern latitude, where all the