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  • Letter to Mirabeau

  • from Selected Letters
  • Edited and translated by Victor Gourevitch, Wesleyan University, Connecticut
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Book:
    Rousseau: <I>The Social Contract</I> and Other Later Political Writings
    Published online:
    20 December 2018
    Print publication:
    08 November 2018, pp 273-276

  • Summary

    I should have written you, Sir, upon receiving your latest note, but I preferred to postpone a few days longer making up for my negligence so that I might speak to you at the same time about the book you sent me. Since I could not read it in its entirety, I chose the chapters in which the Author speaks his mind bluntly and which seemed to me to be the most important ones. Reading them satisfied me less than I expected; and I feel that the remnants of my old ideas, grown calloused in my brain, no longer allow such novel ideas to make strong impressions on it. I have never been able to understand just what the evidence is on which legal despotism is supposed to be based; and nothing seemed to me less evident than the chapter devoted to all this evidence.

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