1. Act Of 1798
Rousseau conquered in his vision that "man is born free and everywhere he is in chains". The chains he spoke of were those of the government that people submit themselves to without justification, making them responsible for their own demise. But Rousseau's mature thought also recognized the potential benefits and advantages of society's chains as long as they were in place as protection for the general good as the people declared it. ... One newspaper editor wrote in question of the distribution of wealth: "The is a growing number of Beggars and wandering poor in the streets of the ...