"The sovereign power represents the head; the laws and customs are the brain, the source of the nerves and seat of the understanding, will and senses, of which the Judges and Magistrates are the organs: commerce, industry, and agriculture are the mouth and stomach which prepare the common subsistence; the public income is the blood, which a prudent <em>economy</em>, in performing the functions of the heart, causes to distribute through the whole body nutriment and life: the citizens are the body and the members, which make the machine live, move and work."
ECONOMIE [later, A Discourse on Political Economy]
From the <u>EncyclopÃ©die</u> (1751-1772), &lt<a href="http://artflsrv02.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.4:599.encyclopedie0513">Link to ARTFL</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from Rousseau, J. J. <u>The Social Contract and Discourses</u>, trans. G. D. H. Cole (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1950). &lt;<a href="http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/RouPoli.html">Link to UVa Etext Center</a>&gt;