Rousseau has suffered as much as any one from critics without a sense of history.
He is accepted as one of the greatest writers France has produced; but even now men are inclined, as political bias prompts them, to accept or reject his political.
His name, a hundred and fifty years after the publication of the Social Contract, is still a controversial watchword and a party cry.
He has been cried up and cried down by democrats and oppressors with an equal lack of understanding and imagination.
Rousseau has suffered as much as any one from critics without a sense of history