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In a section of a book centered on this subject, a figure who is “adrift on the sea of human opinions” says, “I am no great philosopher, nor do I desire to be one.” The English translation of a Juvenal quote was popularized by a book on this subject written as a series of letters to Mary and Edward Clarke. “Everything degenerates in the hands of man,” according to a book centered on this subject whose author defended it in Letters from the Mountain. (-5[1])Two books whose title (*) Serious Proposal concerns this subject were written by Mary Astell. A book on this subject whose passage describing the girl Sophie was criticized (10[1])in Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women was later banned for its controversial “Creed of the Savoyard Vicar.” For 10 points, name this subject of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Emile. ■END■ (10[1]0[2])

ANSWER: education [accept Emile, or Education; accept Some Thoughts Concerning Education; prompt on answers like women’s rights by asking “Which right?”]
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