R. I am positively in earnest.
N. What your real name? _Jean Jacques Rousseau_, at full length?
R. _Jean Jacques Rousseau_ at full length.
N. You surely don’t think. What will the world say of you?
R. What they please. I don’t print my name with a design to pass for
the author, but to be answerable for the book. If it contains any
thing bad, let it be imputed to me; if good, I desire no praise. If
the work in general deserves censure, there is so much more reason for
prefixing my name. I have no ambition to pass for better than I am.
N. Are you content with that answer?
R. Yes, in an age when it is impossible for any one to be good.