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There was a time when scholars held that early humans lived in a kind of beneficent anarchy, in which people were granted their rights by their fellows and there was no governing or being governed. Various early writers looked back to this Golden Age but the point of view that humans were originally children of nature is best known to us in the writings of Rousseau, Locke, and Hobbes. These men described the concept of social contract, which they said had put an end to the state of nature in which the earliest humans were supposed to have lived.
A.
For Rousseau, Locke, and Hobbes, the concept of social contract put an end to the time of beneficent anarchy in which early humans lived.
B.
According to the author, scholars today do not hold that early humans lived in a state of anarchy.
C.
Only Rousseau, Locke, and Hobbes wrote about early humans as children of nature.
D.
The early writers referred to in this passage lived through the Golden Age of early humans.
E.
We can infer that the author of this passage feels that concepts of government have always been present in human history.