Social Contract

25 September 1889 – 14 January 1959

Cole was an English political theorist, economist, writer and historian (<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._D._H._Cole>Wikipedia</a>). He wrote many popular detective stories with his wife, <a href=http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL958559A>Margaret Cole</a>.

28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a major Genevois philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism. His political philosophy influenced the French Revolution and the development of modern political, sociological and educational thought. His novel, *Emile: or, On Education*, which he considered his most important work, is a seminal treatise on the education of the whole person for citizenship. His sentimental novel, Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse, was of great importance to the development of pre-Romanticism and romanticism in fiction. Rousseau's autobiographical writings: his *Confessions*, which initiated the modern autobiography, and his *Reveries of a Solitary Walker* were among t…