Rousseau's Social Contract and Émile
1762
Two books in one year: The Social Contract began 'Man is born free and is everywhere in chains.' Émile proposed raising children by their own nature. Paris banned them; Geneva burned them; readers hid them under mattresses. Jefferson and Robespierre both took notes. The modern politics of feeling was born.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.