What is wollstonecraft’s purpose in citing rousseau’s theory?

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Read the passage from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

. . . Rousseau became enamoured of solitude, and, being at the same time an optimist, he labours with uncommon eloquence to prove that man was naturally a solitary animal. Misled by his respect for the goodness of God, who certainly?—for what man of sense and feeling can doubt it!?—gave life only to communicate happiness, he considers evil as positive, and the work of man; not aware that he was exalting one attribute at the expense of another, equally necessary to divine perfection.

Those are all examples of edible fish. so your answer is numbers 1 and 3.