The following is an excerpt from Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Confessions:"I have resolved on an enterprise which has no precedent, and which, once complete, will have no imitator. My purpose is to display to my kind a portrait in every way true to nature, and the man I shall portray will be myself. Simply myself. I know myown heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike any one I have ever met; I will even venture to say that I am like no one in the wholeworld. I may be no better, but at least I am different. Whether Nature did well or ill in breaking the mould in which she formed me, is a question which can only be resolved after the reading of my book."Why was Rousseau confident his work would "have no imitator"?

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