《Emile》作者： - Jean-Jacques Rousseau【EPUB】

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Jacques RousseauThis page copyright ?? 2002 Blackmask Online.http://www.blackmask.com?? Authors Preface?? BOOK I?? BOOK II?? BOOK III?? BOOK IV?? BOOK VSteve Harris Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.Translated by Barbara FoxleyAuthors PrefaceThis collection of scattered thoughts and observations has little order or continuity it was begun to givepleasure to a good mother who thinks for herself. My first idea was to write a tract a few pages long but Iwas carried away by my subject and before I knew what I was doing my tract had become a kind of booktoo large indeed for the matter contained in it but too small for the subject of which it treats. For a long timeI hesitated whether to publish it or not and I have often felt when at work upon it that it is one thing topublish a few pamphlets and another to write a book. After vain attempts to improve it I have decided that itis my duty to publish it as it stands. I consider that public attention requires to be directed to this subject andeven if my own ideas are mistaken my time will not have been wasted if I stir up others to form right ideas.A solitary who casts his writings before the public without any one to advertise them without any party readyto defend them one who does not even know what is thought and said about those writings is at least freefrom one anxietyif he is mistaken no one will take his errors for gospel.I shall say very little about the value of a good education nor shall I stop to prove that the customary methodof education is bad this has been done again and again and I do not wish to fill my book with things whicheveryone knows. I will merely state that go as far back as you will you will find a continual outcry againstthe established method but no attempt to suggest a better. The literature and science of