Preface

JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU began his famous Confessions by a vehement appeal to the Deity: "I have shown myself as I was； contemptible and vile when I was so； good, generous, sublime when I was so； I have unveiled my interior such as Thou thyself hast seen it, Eternal Father! Collect about me the innumerable swarm of my fellows； let them hear my confessions； let them groan at my unworthiness； let them blush at my meannesses! Let each of them discover his heart in his turn at the foot of thy throne with the same sincerity； and then let any one of them tell thee if he dares: ‘I was a better man!‘ "

Jean Jacques was a very great educator in the manner of the eighteenth century, and has been commonly thought to have had more influence than any other teacher of his time； but his peculiar method of improving human nature has not been universally admired. Most educators of the nineteenth century have declined to show themselves before their scholars as objects more vil

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