Public Administration in Ancient India c7.11

c7.11

The circumstances which impelled individuals to organise themselves into the State are thus described by Rousseau: “I assume that men have reached a point at which the obstacles that endanger their preservation in the state of nature overcome by their resistance the forces which the individuals can cast with a view to maintaining himself in that state. Then this primitive condition can no longer subsist, and the human race would perish unless it changed its mode of existence.” Social Contract, Bk. I. ch. 6.