Conscience! Conscience! Divine instinct, immortal and celestial voice, sure guide of a being ignorant and limited, but intelligent and free; infallible judge of good and evil, which makes man like unto God!
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau Early Modern

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Emile, or On Education, Book IV

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1762

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Shocking

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