The Essential Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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rel="nofollow" href="#ulink_ce3d879b-4a5f-5197-9113-0cf4dc579bc0">22. A child should never be allowed to play with grown-up people as if they were his inferiors, nor even as if they were only his equals. If he ventured to strike any one in earnest, were it only the footman, were it the hangman himself, let the sufferer return his blows with interest, so that he will not want to do it again. I have seen silly women inciting children to rebellion, encouraging them to hit people, allowing themselves to be beaten, and laughing at the harmless blows, never thinking that those blows were in intention the blows of a murderer, and that the child who desires to beat people now will desire to kill them when he is grown up.