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Rousseau’s comparison of the levels of happiness of primitive and modern man returns us to William James’s emphasis on the role of expectations in determining levels of happiness. We may be happy with little when we have come to expect little. And we may be miserable with much when we have been taught to expect everything.

Selon moi, ce qui donne naissance à un État, c’est l’impuissance de chaque individu de se suffire à lui-même, et le besoin qu’il éprouve de mille choses ; ou bien à quelle autre cause un État doit-il son origine