Note 56 — THE ROUND TABLE (continued 3)
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He did more towards the French Revolution than any other man. Voltaire, by his wit and penetration, had rendered superstition contemptible, and tyranny odious: but it was Rousseau who brought the feeling of irreconcilable enmity to rank and privileges, above humanity, home to the bosom of every man,—identified it with all the pride of intellect, and with the deepest yearnings of the human heart.