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Rousseau's First Discourse Live at ACTC | The New Thinkery Ep. 40

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The Frontispiece

Rousseau spent something like a hundred pages interpreting his own frontispiece. There's no there's no human being depicted at all in this image of Prometheus, Seder and a statue of a boy. And again, neither of which is Olympian, which might be interesting. We thought it was interesting with what you just laid out was marching anything we come up with.

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