[wideawake]

I would also point out that the revolutionary theorist Rousseau was a Genevan who, although he rejected Calvin's theology, idolized the strict totalitarianism and regimentation of Calvin's administrative policies.

His model for a total state, which was implemented by the Committee Of Public Safety during The Reign Of Terror of 1793/1794, was derived from his admiring reflection on Calvin's Geneva.

Calvin was the tutor of Rousseau, who was the tutor of Robespierre, who was the tutor of Blanqui who was the tutor of Lenin.

The conservative historian Paul Johnson discusses some of the aspects of this heritage in his book Intellectuals.

[Borges]

But Rosseau's ideas about education still with us and highly influential. I think he went to his grave thinking that David Hume was trying to have him killed. Or something like that.