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Rousseau wrote about raising children—then abandoned his own

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Hypocrisy reached its absolute zenith during the Enlightenment. Rousseau boldly published wildly influential treatises on how to properly raise and educate children, all while secretly dumping all five of his own offspring at a notoriously grim orphanage.

Rousseau wrote about raising children—then abandoned his own
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