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" "ويقوم مذهبه على كون الإنسان صالحًا بطبيعته محبًّا للعدل والنظام، فأفسده المجتمع وجعله بائسًا، والمجتمع سيئ لأنه لا يساوي بين الناس والمنافع، والتملك جائز لأنه مقتطَعٌ من الملك الشائع الذي يجب أن يكون خاصًّا بالإنسانية وحدها، فيجب أن يقضي على المجتمع إذن، وأن يرجع إلى الطبيعة،
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (June 28, 1712 – July 2, 1778) was a major French-speaking Genevan philosopher of Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French Revolution, the development of socialist theory, and the growth of nationalism.
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They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, answered as follows: 'If the books of this library contain matters opposed to the Koran, they are bad and must be burned. If they contain only the doctrine of the Koran, burn them anyway, for they are superfluous.' Our learned men have cited this reasoning as the height of absurdity. However, suppose Gregory the Great was there instead of Omar and the Gospel instead of the Koran. The library would still have been burned, and that might well have been the finest moment in the life of this illustrious pontiff.