Common interest regulates their concerns, and forms their law; and the laws which common usage ordains, have a greater influence than the laws of government.

In fine, society performs for itself almost everything which is ascribed to government.
To understand the nature and quantity of government proper for man, it is necessary to attend to his character.

As Nature created him for social life, she fitted him for the station she intended.

In all cases she made his natural wants greater than his individual powers.

No one man is capable, without the aid of society, of supplying his own wants, and those wants, acting upon every individual, impel the whole of them into society, as naturally as gravitation acts to a centre.
But she has gone further.