 Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which is government, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. It provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of their property, and subdivides their inheritance. What remains but to spare them all the care of thinking and the trouble of living?