It is a great and beautiful spectacle to see a man somehow emerging from oblivion by his own efforts, dispelling with the light of his reason the sha… - 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.

Güç maddesel bir şeydir. Bundan nasıl bir ahlak çıkabilir, bilmem. Güce boyun eğmek, bir istem işi değil, bir zorunluluk; olsa olsa bir sakıntı işidir. Ne bakımdan ödev olabilir bu?

Sī lo guía sin cesar el juicio del autor, no hace otra cosa que ver por ojos ajenos, y si estos le faltan no ve nada.