Excerpt from The Foreign Quarterly Review, Vol. 32: Published in October, 1843, and January, 1844 Let us ook at him a little closer. Jean Jacques is more al laded to in general terms than surve ed minutely now-a-days, and it will be not altogether lost time to follow (briefly, of course) the career of a man who made so great a noise in epoch, and whose influence is likely to be more permanent than most of his contemporaries. Rousseau had a positive side; he had a constructive as well as a destructive theory; and therefore does he rightly belong to the Dudevant category of grand, ' as an originator, although we would not, on that account, exclude him from the predicament of fort.' 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.