There is no real idea of a kind of universal state of nature, or an original state of humanity in which we were equals. It's one version among many possible ways of imagining what we were like in the garden of eden. We really here are just following what ele like rousseau der of voltaire and others themselves tell you, which is, we got these ideas from ther there,. From those cas it's quite interesting, the standard assumption is there was this transatlantic trade of products of bodies, but somehow the fact ideas were also being exchanged is written out right.