Rousseau-Part 4 This book is full of extreme, and sometimes absurd statements; but it set the world the thinking anew on educational problems. The great philosopher Kant paid our author the following tribute: The first impression which a reader derives from Rousseau is that this writer unites to an admirable penetration of genius a noble inspiration and a should full of sensibility, such as has never been met in any other writer, in any other time, or in any othe..