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On the common people. From Rosseau's Emilius

1794 Subjects: Human rights, Philosophy Forms: Article in periodical Printing and Publishing Status: New edition Translation Status: Partial English London URL

Authors of source text

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Contributions

Thomas Nugent
translator
Thomas Spence
publisher

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One pennyworth of pig's meat or, Lessons for the swinish multitude. Collected by the poor man's advocate, in the course of his reading for more than twenty years. Intended to promote among the labouring part of mankind proper ideas of their situation, of their importance, and of their rights And to convince them that their forlorn condition has not been entirely overlooked and forgotten, nor their just cause unpleaded, neither by their maker not by the best and most enlightened of men in all ages

Notes

Pig's Meat, vol.2 (1794), p.135-136. Fragment from Rosseau's (sic) Émile explaining that the common people constitute the bulk of mankind: "Remember that the common people compose the most considerable part of mankind and that if all the kings and philosophers were to be taken away, the chasm would be imperceptible and things would go on just as well without them".

This extract is taken from Thomas Nugent's 1763 translation, Emilius, or an Essay on education (J. Nourse & P. Vaillant, confusingly changed to Emilius, or a Treatise on education in the unacknowledged Edinburgh editions).