Notes and Materials

Rousseau Recitation: "There is, I feel, an age at which an individual man would want to stop. You will seek the age at which you would want your species to have stopped. Dissatisfied with your present state for reasons that portend even greater grounds for dissatisfaction for your unhappy posterity, perhaps you would like to be able to go backwards in time. This feeling should be a hymn of praise of your first ancestors, the criticism of your contemporaries, and the dread of those who have the unhappiness of living after you."