All living things need to live, and energy comes from .

energy; sun or food

Explanation:

If you are taking about animals, the second answer is food i believe.

If you are talking about plants, then it is sun.

But technically, sun helps us as humans and it also helps animals a lot with different things. So maybe just sun. Let me know.

Hope this helps!

you did not attach the discourse, but i assume it to be the discourse on the origin and basis of inequality among men (the original titile in french is: "discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes"), also know as "second discourse". in this discourse, jean-jacques rousseau emphasizes that private property is the basis of all inequalities.

therefore, what enabled the old regime to maintain as long as it did was private property.