Emile, or On Education

do not enter into my plan. Others may occupy themselves with these, if they wish, each for the country or the social state original: "état" they have in view. It is enough for me that wherever men are born, one may make of them what I propose, and that having made of them what I propose, one has done what is best both for them and for others. If I do not fulfill this commitment, I am certainly in the wrong; but if I do fulfill it, one would be equally wrong to demand more from me, for I promise only that.