The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete

BOOK I.

INTRODUCTION.

|Among the notable books of later times--we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudalism were rallying for their last struggle against the modern spirit, chiefly represented by Voltaire, the Encycl...