71. This shews the reason how it comes to pass, that parents in societies, where they themselves are subjects, retain a power over their children, and have as much right to their subjection, as those who are in the state of nature. Which could not possibly be, if all political power were only paternal, and that in truth they were one and the same thing:
71. Honek erakusten digu nolatan gurasoek, eurak menpeko hiritar diren gizarteetan, botere bat duten seme-alaben gainean. Beraz, hauek gurasoen menpe daude, naturazko egoeran daudenen kasuan bezala. Ziurrenik hau ezinezkoa litzateke botere politikoa soilik aitatiarra balitz, hau da, botere biak gauza bakarra balira.