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(Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker, Botanical Writings, and Letter to Franquières 131, my emphasis)] According to Rousseau, mastery of botany requires an education of the eye and relentless practice in the art of careful observation. If the mother is to initiate her daughter into botany, she must herself learn to see well, and this is what Rousseau sets forth to teach her - by way of letters. The Metaphysics of Morals, it fosters a "sensibility that greatly promotes morality or at least prepares the way for it: the disposition, namely, to love something . . .
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