The vilest tastes, the lowest street-blackguardism took the place of my simple amusements and effaced even… — Jean Jacques Rousseau

The vilest tastes, the lowest street-blackguardism took the place of my simple amusements and effaced even the remembrance of them. I must, in spite of a most upright training, have had a great propensity to degenerate; for the change took place with great rapidity, without the least trouble, and never did soprecocious a Caesar so rapidly become a Laridon.

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