What Is the Origin of Inequality Among Men, and Is It Authorised by Natural Law?

A Discourse

On a Subject Proposed by the Academy of Dijon:

Non in depravatis, sed in his qua bene secundum naturam
se habent, considerandum est quid sit naturale.

Aristotle, Politics, Bk. i, ch. 2.

[We should consider what is natural not in things which are depraved
but in those which are rightly ordered according to nature.]