A rococo headpiece features a central cluster of flowers and leaves, framed by symmetrical scrolling acanthus foliage and floral garlands.

EMILE,

OR

ON EDUCATION.

Everything is well when it leaves the hands of the Author of all things; everything degenerates in the hands of man. He forces one soil to nourish the products of another, one tree to bear the fruits of another. He mixes and confuses the climates, the elements, and the seasons. He mutilates his horse and his slave. He turns everything upside down, he disfigures everything; he loves deformity and monsters. He wants nothing as nature made it, not even man himself; he must train him like a circus horse, he must twist him to his own fashion like a tree in his garden.