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Confessions Of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Book Twelve: Part 1

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

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Book Twelve: Part 1

Here begins the work of darkness, in which I have for the last eight years been enveloped, though it has not by any means been possible for me to penetrate the dreadful obscurity. In the abyss of evil into which I am plunged, I feel the blows reach me, and their immediate instrument, without perceiving the hand by which they are directed, or the means it employs. Shame and misfortune seem of themselves to fall upon me without its intervention. When in the affliction of my heart I suffer a groan to escape me, I have the appearance of a man who ...

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