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‘Je ne suis donc pas simplement un etre sensitif et passif, mais un etre actif et intelligent, et quoi qu’en dise la philosophie, j’oserai pretendre a l’honneur de penser, &c.’—EMILE, beginning of the third, or end of the second volume. “(5) C39 of Station 6 has this note clipped to […]

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