...delegated it. III. — Then — and here we have the grand, the eternal objection against Rousseau's system — the ultimate result of equality, according...in history, in philosophy, in morals. But if, with Rousseau, you found it on a contract, on a convention concluded between beings who owed nothing to...

...apostolic Fathers (so called), so far as the works that bear their names are genuine, laid intense stress on the equality of all men in the sight of God, on the inviolahle sacredness of the marriage covenant, and on the relative rights and obligations of the members...