Excerpt from Jean Jacques Rousseau It is always difficult to be just in re gard to events that have changed the face of the world. There are so many things to be weighed, it is necessary to consider the whole from a standpoint so high and so remote, that a hundred years is not enough to give us the right perspective. We are no better situated with regard to these exceptional men, beings more com plex than others and so much the more difficult to understand. Rousseau is of that number. His talent is the only thing about ...
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Excerpt from Jean Jacques Rousseau It is always difficult to be just in re gard to events that have changed the face of the world. There are so many things to be weighed, it is necessary to consider the whole from a standpoint so high and so remote, that a hundred years is not enough to give us the right perspective. We are no better situated with regard to these exceptional men, beings more com plex than others and so much the more difficult to understand. Rousseau is of that number. His talent is the only thing about him which is not open to discussion. As an artistin language he is recognized as without a peer (the first French critic of our epoch has proclaimed him' the king of prose writers and Littr??? quotes him on every page). But the character, the philosophy, the influence of Rousseau are still matters of dispute. By the second centenary it will not be so difficult to be just; let us at the first at least make the attempt to be so. The thought which inspires this festival and which ought to guide us, is a thought of justice. Historic justice towards a great man consists in placing him in his proper station and recognizing what his func tions were. What then shall our task be? Set ting aside the eleven thousand pages of our author, and the fifty or sixty volumes on, for, or against him; letting all the old quarrels sleep, we propose to recallin a few words the career of Rousseau, then to seek for the deep-lying reasons of his success; and finally to pass a rapid judgment upon his thought and his work. Not a panegyric, not an apotheosis, but an enumeration of the positive claims of the Genevese philosopher, that is all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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