Historical Examples. 1  And let the same rule be observed about the registration of the property of the metics. Laws Plato.  2 Let me see the registration slip from the Prefecture, he said, at last. The Destroyer Burton Egbert Stevenson. 3  The poet's registration in the parish records at Stratford is dated April 26, 1564.
After years of thought Rousseau wrote a book on the origins of government, 'The Social Contract', stating that no laws are binding unless agreed upon by the people. This idea deeply affected French thinking, and it became one of the chief forces that brought on the French Revolution about 30 years later.
However, the days of literature as a sacred and guarded realm open only to a few were all but gone by the time the nineteenth century arrived. In Europe, Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau were the torchbearers of Enlightenment literature and philosophy. Rousseau was a strong advocate for social reform of all kinds. He more or less invented the autobiography as it is known today.