"So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest of humanity, must contend with each other."

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And when the relics of humanity left among the Spaniards induced them to forbid their lawyers to set foot in America, what must they have thought of jurisprudence? May it not be said that they thought, by this single expedient, to make reparation for all the outrages they had committed against the unhappy Indians?

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau