Among the notable books of later timeswe may say without exaggeration of all timemust be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch when absolutism and feudalism were rallying for their last struggle against the modern spirit chiefly represented by Voltaire the Encyclopedists and Rousseau himselfa struggle to which after many fierce intestine quarrels and sanguinary war...