The character and life of Rousseau provide ample material for the psychologist. Ture, some of troubles were dur to physical ill-health. He suffered for years from a bladder complaint, and he most probably died of uraemia. But from the beginning social adjustment was diffical (difficult)for him, and though he was capable of deep affection and attachment, he was too sensitive, suspicious and intolerant to maintain constant friendships. A man much given to self-analysis, he often failed to understand either himself or others. A philosopher, he yet possessing a highly emotional comtaperament(temperament), and he drew attention to the tension between emotion and thought, heart and mind, which oppressed him. Romantic, emotional, possessing a genuire (genuine)religious feelings yet self-centred and mentally unbalanced, it is in no way surprising that Rousseau broke with les philosophes. D’Holbach warned Hume that he was comtemplating (contemplating)warming a viper in his bosom. And Hume later referred to Rousseau as “the most singular of all human beings”, though he afterwards aurately (acutely)remarked that the latter had only felt during the whole course of his life and that in him sensibility had risen to an unexampled pitch. But all this, of course, in no way affects Rousseau’s importance in the history of philosophy.
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