Then, if inequality of conditions is a necessary evil, so is isolation, for society and inequality are incompatible with each other.

Then, if society is the true condition of man's existence, so is equality also.
This conclusion cannot be avoided.
This being so, how is it that, ever since the establishment of this balance, inequality has been on the increase?
How is it that justice and isolation always accompany each other?
Destutt de Tracy shall reply:-- "NEEDS and MEANS, RIGHTS and DUTIES, are products of the will.

If man willed nothing, these would not exist.

But to have needs and means, rights and duties, is to HAVE, to POSSESS, something.

They are so many kinds of property, using the word in its most general sense: they are things which belong to us." Shameful equivocation, not justified by the necessity for generalization! The word PROPERTY has two meanings: 1.