ABSTRACT
Gentlemen, Man is eminently sociable, for him, it is a torment to live alone; he only resigns
himself to it by force. The society of his very own family, even if it is of a notable relief to him, it not enough; and the study that we are going to make of the scope of his faculties and his wants will provide us with many proofs of this truth, that his existence in his societal state is his natural existence.
