Translations:Victor of Aveyron/107/en

• I have not the least doubt, that, if we were to insulate, at the earliest period of infancy, two children, the one male, and the other female, and were to do the same with two quadrupeds, chosen from the species of brutes, that was the least intelligent, these latter would not show themselves much superior to the former, in the means of providing for their wants, and in taking care either of their own preservation, or that of their children be drawn is, that moral superiority which has been said to be natural to man, is merely the result of civilization, which raises him above other animals by a great and powerful stimulus. This stimulus is the prédominent sensibility of his species; the essential property from which flow the faculties of imitation, and that unintermitting propensity that forces him to seek, in new wants, new sensations.