Note 80 — Chapter I · : THE PHYSIOCRATS
R. (Robert) Richards translation
Quesnay, Maximes, vol. i, p. 390. Mercier de la Rivière writes in much the same style; “The positive laws that are already in existence are merely expressions of such natural rights.” (Vol. ii, p. 61.) It sounds like a preamble to the Declaration of the Rights of Man.