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The Story of the French Revolution by Ernest Belfort Bax | Episode 1 |

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Rousseau's Greatest Work, the Social Contract

Rousseau's doctrines were contained in an early essay on civilization. His writings were quoted and read as a new gospel by well nigh all the prom ent leaders of the time. The social contract, his greatest work, contains a discussion of the first principles of social and political order. It is to this work the magic formulas which served as watchwords during the revolution.

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