Morelly. — Code de la nature ou Le véritable esprit de ses loix : 1755.

Publié par Édouard Dolléans. Paris : P. Geuthner, 1910. Paperback. xxxi,119 pp. (Collection des économistes et des réformateurs sociaux de la France). Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - Étienne-Gabriel Morelly (1717-1778) was a French utopian thinker and novelist. An otherwise obscure tax official, Morelly wrote two books on education and a critique of Montesquieu. As well he is thought to be (perhaps erroneously) the author of The Code of Nature, which was published anonymously in France in 1755. This book, a basis of thought for later socialist and Communist thinkers, criticized the society of his day, promoted a social order without avarice and proposed a constitution intended to lead to an egalitarian society without property, marriage, church or police.