Excerpt from Essays on the Origin of Society, Language, Property, Government, Jurisdiction, Contracts, and Marriage: Interspersed With Illustrations From the Greek and Galic Languages<br><br>One man and one woman were fufficient to people the earth. The creation of more perfons of the human fpecies than one male and one female, who were under the fpecial care of the Divine Being, was unnecelfary.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.