There is, I feel, an age at which the individual man would want to stop: you wi l seek the age at which you would desire your Species had stopped. Di… - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There is, I feel, an age at which an individual man would want to stop. You will seek the age at which you would want your species to have stopped. Dissatisfied with your present state for reasons that portend even greater grounds for dissatisfaction for your unhappy posterity, perhaps you would like to be able to go backwards in time.

Destitute of valid reasons to justify and sufficient strength to defend himself, able to crush individuals with ease, but easily crushed himself by a troop of bandits, one against all, and incapable, on account of mutual jealousy, of joining with his equals against numerous enemies united by the common hope of plunder, the rich man, thus urged by necessity, conceived at length the profoundest plan that ever entered the mind of man: this was to employ in his favour the forces of those who attacked him, to make allies of his adversaries, to inspire them with different maxims, and to give them other institutions as favourable to himself as the law of nature was unfavourable.

Sī lo guía sin cesar el juicio del autor, no hace otra cosa que ver por ojos ajenos, y si estos le faltan no ve nada.

He was freer and less constrained in the womb; he has gained nothing by birth.