Posted 12/21/2018 7:42 pm
That's a beautiful specimen.
I'm personally intrigued by the saying "Unanimity is the Bond of Society". I googled it, and it led me to The Social Contract. Jean Jacques Rousseau (1762). Rousseau seems to be making that very argument 30 years prior.
I had never heard that phrase before, so I just found that interesting.
I'm personally intrigued by the saying "Unanimity is the Bond of Society". I googled it, and it led me to The Social Contract. Jean Jacques Rousseau (1762). Rousseau seems to be making that very argument 30 years prior.
Quote:
But when the social bond begins to be relaxed and the State to grow weak, when particular interests begin to make themselves felt and the smaller societies to exercise an influence over the larger, the common interest changes and finds opponents: opinion is no longer unanimous; the general will ceases to be the will of all; contradictory views and debates arise; and the best advice is not taken without question.
But when the social bond begins to be relaxed and the State to grow weak, when particular interests begin to make themselves felt and the smaller societies to exercise an influence over the larger, the common interest changes and finds opponents: opinion is no longer unanimous; the general will ceases to be the will of all; contradictory views and debates arise; and the best advice is not taken without question.
I had never heard that phrase before, so I just found that interesting.
