Rousseau's writings are so admirably adapted to touch both these classes that the effect they produced, especially in France, is easily intelligible. (Thomas Henry Huxley)

Rousseau's writings are so admirably adapted to touch both these classes that the effect they produced, especially in France, is easily intelligible.

Thomas Henry Huxley

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