It is therefore not natural. It is natural to man, it belongs to his nature, to his essence, which is not, unlike that of animals, natural. Social activity, speech included, cannot by definition be natural because it occurs, has its origin, not in nature but in society. One final thought, really more a promise of future comment, concerns the statement above that men are unequal because God so wills that they be so. Native Americans have always referred to them as brothers, a courtesy we usually deny to the Europeans who have so recently found their tortured way among and against us.
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