John Locke's Second Treatise of Government and Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin of Inequality are books written to try to explain the origin of society . Both seek to explain the evils and inequalities of society and, to some extent, to discuss whether man in his natural state is better than man in society. These theories based on political science do not appear, at first glance, to have anything in common with J. Hector St. John De Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer, which are letters written by Crèvecoeur during the colonization of America and the early of the American Revolution. , however with examination we can see the reflection of both Locke and Rousseau's ideas on things like human nature, government, and inequality. When he speaks of the nature of man, Crèvecoeur speaks of the natural man and of man in society. He proclaims: «Evil prevails in both; in the first they often eat each other due to lack of food, and in the other they often starve each other due to lack of space. (Crèvecoeur, 608). He does not see one state as better than the other; he believes both have their drawbacks. On the other hand Rousseau and Locke both believe that man in his natural state was better. For Rousseau all of man's needs are satisfied in nature (Rousseau, 47), while in society man can take more than he needs, which leaves his fellow man deficient. For Locke, even though man entered society to enjoy property in peace and security (Locke, 69), he believes that living in society has caused greed and governments to rule without the consent of their people. So while the authors disagree about what the state of nature was like, with only Locke really insisting that things… middle of paper… you live in a society where the government is democratic and the government the republic had been established much earlier (Rousseau, 31-32). Crèvecoeur's preference for a free and democratic government over an absolute monarchy can be seen as a reflection of the views of Locke and Rousseau. Despite not being written in the genre of political writing, actually providing more of a sociological perspective, Letters from an American Farmer is quite consistent in having the same opinion and views on key philosophical issues such as inequality, government, and the nature of man as in the books Second Treatise of Government and The Basics of Political Writings. Through Crèvecoeur's writings we see many opinions, such as man's greed and how man is evil in both society and nature, which reflects the written opinions and theories of Locke and Rousseau.