Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) by John Morley
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Confessions (written 1766-70) { Pt. I 1781
{ Pt. II 1788 Rêveries (written 1777-78). _Comme dans les étangs assoupis sous les bois, Dans plus d'une âme on voit deux choses à la fois: Le ciel, qui teint les eaux à peine remuées Avec tous ses rayons et toutes ses nueés; Et la vase, fond morne, affreux, sombre et dormant, Où des reptiles noirs fourmillent vaguement._ HUGO. ROUSSEAU. CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY. Christianity is the name for a great variety of changes which took place during the first centuries of our era, in men's ways of thinking and feeling about their spiritual relations to unseen powers, about their moral relations to one another, about the basis and type of social union. So the Revolution is now the accepted name for a set of changes |
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