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Quotation from The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men”
The Social Contract, Book III, Chapter IV, trans. G. D. H. Cole (1913)
The close of the chapter on democracy, which Rousseau thinks needs a tiny state, simple manners and near equality.
Citation: "Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men" — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, Book III, Chapter IV, trans. G. D. H. Cole (1913). (id the-social-contract-q10)
Portrait: Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Public domain.
