Note 77 — Chapter XXI · EDUCATION AND THE SOCIAL PROBLEM—HISTORIC. EGYPT AND GREECE.

“It is not equitable that what one man hath done for the public should discharge another of what it has a right to expect from him; for one, standing indebted in himself to society, cannot substitute anything in the room of his personal service. The father cannot transmit to his son the right of being useless to his fellow-creatures.... The man who earns not his subsistence, but eats the bread of idleness, is no better than a thief.... To labor, then, is the indispensable duty of social or political man. Rich or poor, strong or weak, every idle citizen is a knave.”—“Emilius and Sophia,” Vol. II., pp. 92, 93. By J. J. Rousseau. London: 1767.