Personas de reconocida integridad colocadas en situaciones difíciles, maridos engañados> mujeres seducidas, partos clandestinos, he aquí los asuntos … - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He who would preserve the supremacy of natural feelings in social life knows not what he asks. Ever at war with himself, hesitating between his wishes and his duties, he will be neither a man nor a citizen. He will be of no use to himself nor to others. He will be a man of our day, a Frenchman, an Englishman, one of the great middle class. To be something, to be himself, and always at one with himself, a man must act as he speaks, must know what course he ought to take, and must follow that course with vigour and persistence. When I meet this miracle it will be time enough to decide whether he is a man or a citizen, or how he contrives to be both. Two conflicting types of educational systems spring from these conflicting aims. One is public and common to many, the other private and domestic.

Empecemos por distinguir en el sentimiento del amor lo moral y lo físico. Lo físico es ese deseo general que impulsa a un sexo a unirse con otro. Lo moral es lo que determina ese deseo y lo fija exclusivamente en un solo objeto, o que, por lo menos, le da haica ese objeto preferido un mayor grado de energía. Ahora bien; es fácil ver que lo moral del amor es un sentimiento facticio nacido del uso de la sociedad y elogiado por las mujeres con suma habilidad y cuidado para implantar su imperio y hacer dominante el sexo que debía obedecer.

It would be equally unreasonable to imagine that men at first threw themselves into the arms of an absolute master, without any conditions or consideration on his side; and that the first means contrived by jealous and unconquered men for their common safety was to run hand over head into slavery. In fact, why did they give themselves superiors, if it was not to be defended by them against oppression, and protected in their lives, liberties, and properties, which are in a manner the constitutional elements of their being?