![]() ![]() ![]() Rousseau was fifty when he wrote the book, and it followed closely on his Social Contract and New Heloïsa, that is to say, he was able to envisage his childhood, boyhood, and youth across the corrective experience of the years that for most men kill out the early illusions and only spare the ideals that can stand the wear and tear of reality. It is written with the enthusiasm and the conviction of the man who has tried every axiom it contains upon the strings of his own heart and its purpose is to arouse and defend the susceptibility of the child who could grow into such a man by all the forces of education. Emile is a philosophical romance with three chief characters-Emile, Sophy, and Jean Jacques himself who moves to and fro, realising and explaining his character in every page. ![]()
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