Chapter I

§1. What is the natural state of mankind?

§2. What renders them mutually dependent? By what means are they enabled to supply their wants?

§3. Why should every man labor for himself?

§4. What comes from this arrangement?

§5. How are the rights of men secured to them?

§6. What is _law_?

§7. For what else than society are mankind fitted by nature? Define _moral_.

§8. What is implied in man's having a moral nature?

§9. What qualities or faculties in mankind fit them for government and law?

§10. What is a state or nation?

§11. What is the object of forming state associations? What is meant by _civil government_?