“[Jean Jacques] Rousseau’s contributions were principally concerned with the technicalities of [music], including entries on tone, rhythm [n] ^v, and the chromatic scale.But his major essay for the encyclopedia concerned political economy, and [it has dated well] [mother-trucking son of a container ship of sweet potatoes stuck in a canal] ..

“It is one of the most important concerns of government to prevent the extreme inequality of fortunes; not by taking away wealth from its possessors, but by depriving men of all the means to accumulate it; not by building hospitals for the poor, but by guaranteeing the citizen will not become poor. The unequal distribution of inhabitants in our country, some crowded together in one place, while other areas are depopulated; the support given to the arts in producing luxuries and to the purely industrial arts at the expense of the useful and laborious crafts; the sacrifice of agriculture to commerce … and finally venality pushed to such an extreme that public esteem is reckoned at a low cash value; and even virtue is sold at a market price: these are the most perceptible causes of opulence and poverty, of private interest substituted for public interest, of mutual hatred among citizens.”

And what the giddy fork here now we present an astoundingly, breathtakingly and indeed Knock-two-points-off ((NEOCLASSICAL Ken Burns NARRATIVE DRIVE Saviour, Great-man or Great-woman theory boring “you” to sobs next-stop catatonic Social-Darwinist FREEZE on the floor of the proverbial jungle as a large beast gnashing sharp teeth while simultaneously flinging out little pieces of paper with the number 666 written on them and this most congenial conversation as if restored from Woolly Mammoth and Tasmanian Thylacine glial fluid or ribonucleic acid WAS frozen in time as well as the reader was gentled, cosseted and pampered in a lilting Stephen Hawking and Arnold Toynbee historical Time-machine type thing personalised Silicon Valley Busy Beavers to the year Seventeen-hundred ‘sense-surround’ state of consciousness cum Lived-experience as if indeed the attentive reader may well have found himself, or herself or the self transported as if to a micro-paradise of earthly or Biblically temporal and frankly vernacular delights and landed in in the dude’s actual bedchamber itself if not scantilly attired..) any older adult reader’s or poor-sod senior secondary school or undergraduate arts literature humanities and social sciences student’s Stanford Binet (The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale was introduced in 1916 by Lewis Terman, an American psychologist at Stanford University. This test was an adaptation and revision of the earlier Binet-Simon test, which was originally developed in France in 1905)) IQ in one fell “swoop:” https://www.3-16am.co.uk/blog/exclusive-3-16-interview-with-jean-jacques-rousseau

^The original spelling was rime or ryme, which came from the Old French word rime. The current spelling, “rhythm,” was introduced in the 16th and 17th centuries to connect the word to its Greek and Latin origins, rhuthmos and rhythmus, respectively Rime/ryme: This was the original spelling in English, derived from the Old French word rime. It also appears in Old English as rim, meaning “number”.

^⁺¹ Rhythmus/rhuthmos: The Greek and Latin words for “measured flow” were adopted by scholars who wanted to show the word’s classical roots.

^⁺² Rhythm/rythme: This spelling emerged in the 16th and 17th centuries as printers and writers began to standardize English, with some adding the “h” and “th” to the older spelling to reflect the Latin/Greek root.