An Enquiry Concerning The Principles Of Morals - pg. 210

The reference is to the ancient legend that an ideal period existed on earth during the reign of Saturn (Greek Cronus). Rules of justice and property did not then exist, and, according to the early poet Hesiod of Boeotia (8th-7th C. BC), men lived like gods in perfect felicity, without women and without fear of suffering, hardship, or death.