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This very fact that crowds possess in common ordinary qualities explains why they can never accomplish acts demanding a high degree of intelligence. … - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
" "This very fact that crowds possess in common ordinary qualities explains why they can never accomplish acts demanding a high degree of intelligence. The decisions affecting matters of general interest come to by an assembly of men of distinction, but specialists in different walks of life, are not sensibly superior to the decisions that would be adopted by a gathering of imbeciles.
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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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Un homme était-il éminent en pouvoir, en vertu, en richesses ou en crédit, il fut seul élu magistrat, et l’état devint monarchique. Si plusieurs, à peu près égaux entre eux, l’emportaient sur tous les autres, ils furent élus conjointement, et l’on eut une aristocratie. Ceux dont la fortune ou les talents étaient moins disproportionnés, et qui s’étaient le moins éloignés de l’état de nature, gardèrent en commun l’administration suprême, et formèrent une démocratie.
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