Footnotes
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There is a much neglected strain in Rousseau tending intellectually in
this direction. He opposed the existing state of affairs on the ground
that it formed neither the citizen nor the man. Under existing
conditions, he preferred to try for the latter rather than for the former.
But there are many sayings of his which point to the formation of the
citizen as ideally the higher, and which indicate that his own endeavor,
as embodied in the Emile, was simply the best makeshift the corruption of
the times permitted him to sketch.
