Little Journeys
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Little Journeys: To the Homes of Eminent Orators The French Revolution traces a lineal descent direct from Voltaire and Jean Jacques Rousseau. These men were contemporaries; they came to the same conclusions, expressing the same thought, each in his own way, absolutely independent of the other. And as genius seldom recognizes genius, neither knew the greatness of the other. Voltaire was an aristocrat - the friend of kings and courtiers, the brilliant cynic, the pet of the salons and the center of the culture and brains of his time. Rousseau was a man of the people, plain and unpretentious - a man without ambition - a dreamer. His first writings were mere debating-society monologues, done for his own amusement and the half dozen or so cronies who cared to listen. But, as he wrote, things came to him - the significance of his words became to him apparent. Opposition made it necessary to define his position, and threat made it wise to amplify and explain. He grew through exercise, as all men do who grow at all; the spirit of the times acted upon him, and knowledge unrolled as a scroll. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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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