whether ... too little
At the beginning of his "Summary" of the Abbé de Saint-Pierre's Project for Perpetual Peace, Rousseau asks, "If our social order were, as it is claimed to be, the work of reason rather than of the passions, would we have taken so long to see that as far as our well-being is concerned we have accomplished either too much or too little?"
The implication is that while we claim to have gained personal security through the establishment of political institutions, the fact that nation states are so frequently at war with each other suggests either that we should never have left the state of nature or that we should create more extensive global political entities that could maintain international peace.