![]() Great men make, indeed, individual contributions to the knowledge of their times but they can never transcend the age in which they live. ![]() Theory, no less than action, is subject to these necessities the form in which men cast their speculations, no less than the ways in which they behave, are the result of the habits of thought and action which they find around them. ![]() Without mentally referring to the environment in which they lived, we cannot hope to penetrate below the inessential and temporary to the absolute and permanent value of their thought. Dent and Sons, 1923).įor the study of the great writers and thinkers of the past, historical imagination is the first necessity. ![]() Source: Introduction to Rousseau's The Social Contract and Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, translated with an Introduction by G.D. ![]()
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