This, according to Bastiat, is a proof that humanity itself is capable of creating a complex socioeconomic order that might be superior to an arbitrary vision of a philosopher | |
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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986 | 2005 , The Solitary Self, Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press |
Subsequently, when the Swiss authorities also proved unsympathetic to him—condemning both Emile, and also —Voltaire issued an invitation to Rousseau to come and reside with him, commenting that: "I shall always love the author of the 'Vicaire savoyard' whatever he has done, and whatever he may do.
14I conclude that the morals of your savage are as pure as his mind is illogical | On 4 July 1778, Rousseau was buried on the [], which became a place of pilgrimage for his many admirers |
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The essay he wrote in response led to one of the central themes of Rousseau's thought, which was that perceived social and cultural progress had in fact led only to the moral degradation of humanity | Emile, or On Education, trans |
Come, then, to me; I admire your talents; I am amused by your dreams, which be it said in passing occupy you too much and too long.
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