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an utter unreality in the arguments he launched on the world 
and which possessed the world for thirty or forty years. 
The leaders of the American Revolution borrowed from 
Rousseau in their Declaration. They quoted his exact words, 
“All men are born free and equal magnificent, high- 
sounding sentences which thrill the blood. But probably in 
the very town where the Declaration was launched they had 
black people who were not born free and whom to-day they 
did not regard as equal. That was a fair sample of the un- 
reality of the arguments which led to the catastrophe of 
“ liberty, fraternity and equality,” where there was neither 
liberty, fraternity nor equality. He (Mr. Hudson) was 
convinced that a better man in Rousseau’s place might have 
produced greater effects than Rousseau without the horrid 
legacy of slaughter. (Cheers). 
