113. The doctrines which explain political obligation by contract
agree in treating sovereign and subject apart, whereas they are
correlative
114. For the desire for freedom in the individual is no real desire
unless he is one of a society which recognises it. (Slaves are not a
real exception to this)
115. And without an authority embodied in civil institutions he would
not have the elementary idea of right which enables him to question
the authority
116. But the theory of contract expresses, in a confused way, the
truth that only through the common recognition of a common good, and
its embodiment in institutions, is morality possible