ideas which the Abbe's work had a
tendency to excite, and the prejudicial impressions they might make,
must be an apology for my remarks, and the freedom with which they are
made.

I observe the Abbe has made a sort of epitome of a considerable part
of the pamphlet Common Sense, and introduced it in that form into his
publication. But there are other places where the Abbe has borrowed
freely from the said pamphlet without acknowledging it. The difference
between society and government, with which the pamphlet opens, is
taken from it, and in some expressions almost literally, into the
Abbe's work, as if originally his own; and through the whole of the
Abbe's remarks on this head, the idea in Common Sense is so closely
copied and pursued, that the difference is only in words, and in the
arrangement of the thoughts, and not in the thoughts themselves.[3]

FOOTNOTE:

[3]

COMMON SENSE. ABBE RAYNAL.
"Some writers have so confounded "Care must be taken not to confound
society With government, as to leave together society with government.
little or no distinction between them; That they may be known distinctly,
whereas they are not only different, their origin should be considered.
but have different origins.

"Society is produced by our wants, "Society originates in the wants of
and governments by our wickedness; men, government in their vices.
the former promotes our happiness Society tends always to good; government
_positively_, by uniting our affections; ought always to tend to the
the latter _negatively_, by restraining repressing of evil."
our vices."

_In the following paragraphs there is less likeness in the language, but
the ideas in the one are evidently copied from the other_.

"In order to gain a clear and just "Man, thrown, as it were by
idea of the design and end of government, chance upon the globe, surrounded
let us suppose a small number by all the evils of nature, obliged
of persons, meeting in some frequented continually to defend and protect his
part of the earth, unconnected life against the storms and tempests
with the rest; they will then represent of the air, against the inundations of
the peopling of any country or water, against the fire of volcanoes,
of the world. In this state of natural against the intemperance of frigid
liberty, soci