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... you are lost, if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody."1 With these powerful words, Rousseau begins the second part of the Second Discourse. Having previously argued that the state of nature was a good place, and a man had no good reason to leave it, he now describes the moment of leaving as a disaster for mankind. All the harms that man experiences have resulted from us (people) leaving the state of nature and entering into civil society. Rousseau believes that development of institutionalized inequality is a series of tricks played by the powerful people on the weak people, and so is the ultimate foundation of civil society began. The above quotation emphasizes the extraordinary nature of the creation of property. Rousseau is very clear that the connection between property and inequality is a direct one. Once ...