[182] Ch. vi. (vol. v. 371; edit. 1801).
[183] Ch. vii. (p. 383.)
[184] Goguet, in his Origine des Lois, des Arts, et des Sciences (1758), really attempted as laboriously as possible to carry out a notion of the historical method, but the fact that history itself at that time had never been subjected to scientific examination made his effort valueless. He accumulates testimony which would be excellent evidence, if only it had been sifted, and had come out of the process substantially undiminished. Yet even Goguet, who thus carefully followed the accounts of early societies given in the Bible and other monuments, intersperses abstract general statements about man being born free and independent (i. 25), and entering society as the result of deliberate reflection.
[185] Cont. Soc., II. xi. Also III. viii.
[186] II. xi. Also ch. viii.
[187] II. viii.
[188] II. ix.
[189] Politics, VII. iv. 8, 10.
[190] Cont. Soc., II. x.
[191] Plato's Laws, v. 737.