Almost equally incredible to us is the ardor of revolution that filled the world in those first days of our national life,--the fact that one of the rulers of the world’s mind in that generation was Rousseau, the apostle of all that is fanciful, unreal, and misleading in politics.
Wilson comments on the revolutionary spirit of the early days of democracy, critiquing Rousseau's influence.
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