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livastra's review against another edition
3.0
Rousseau sent Voltaire a copy of "The Social Contract" and Voltaire wrote him back the following:
"I have received your new book against the human race, and thank you for it. Never was such a cleverness used in the design of making us all stupid. One longs, in reading your book, to walk on all fours. But as I have lost that habit for more than sixty years, I feel unhappily the impossibility of resuming it. Nor can I embark in search of the savages of Canada, because the maladies to which I am condemned render a European surgeon necessary to me; because war is going on in those regions; and because the example of our actions has made the savages nearly as bad as ourselves."
"I have received your new book against the human race, and thank you for it. Never was such a cleverness used in the design of making us all stupid. One longs, in reading your book, to walk on all fours. But as I have lost that habit for more than sixty years, I feel unhappily the impossibility of resuming it. Nor can I embark in search of the savages of Canada, because the maladies to which I am condemned render a European surgeon necessary to me; because war is going on in those regions; and because the example of our actions has made the savages nearly as bad as ourselves."
davidduus's review against another edition
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
3.0
Part 2 and 3 of this book felt very stretched and made me wanting to quit at times, since i still tried to not skip details and reall get everything in. Part 4 again was really nicely paced and i quite enjoyed it. Its notthe best ive read but also not the worst, i think its well placed in the middle. Gives your nice insights and I cant say I didnt take something out of it for time to come, but it also wasn't phenomenal or any life changing book which i will still remember vividly in years or even months probably.