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the consideration of Man as an Individual let us proceed & view him as entering upon society, - a diversity of Individual interests must necessarily clash, & produce disorder, except the limits of enjoyment be severally defined. -- Man therefore feels himself under the necessity of entering into a compact with Man for the mutual security of each, -- Every institution of power is an infringement upon individual Liberty, & in order to give energy to the controuling one, a portion of private & personal freedom must necessarily be sacrificed. -- Thus Self Love in its firdt operation directs to Social, & justifies the affirmation that Self Love & social are the same. Let us farther trace Man in his progress
