...practice of a stern, joyless religion. Then Rousseau rebelled against such twisted thinking, and wrote, "Everything is good as it comes from the hands of...Nature, but everything degenerates in the hands of man." Now we, in turn, step ahead of Rousseau and say that the child as it comes from Nature is like any...

...first lines of the famous book that has done more than any other to mould human education, read thus: "Everything is good, as it comes from the hands of the Author of nature; everything degenerates in the hands of man. He forces one country to nourish the productions of another,...

...first lines of the famous book that has done more than any other to mould human education, read thus : "Everything is good, as it comes from the hands of the Author of nature; everything degenerates in the hands of man. He forces one country to nourish the productions of another,...

...countless ills into education, and is therefore to be sedulously shunned. Thus Rousseau (Emile, p. 1) says: "Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Author of nature; everything degenerates in the hands of man." / 12. " Nature " is not the beneficent goddess and the...

...innocence and of the perfect goodness of the child. The Emile opens with this solemn declaration: — " Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Author of nature; everything degenerates in the hands of man." And in another place, " Let us assume as an incontestable...

...they showed signs of ugliness, I could have killed them." — LES CONFESSIONS, part i, liv. vi. come a mature man, he will no longer need any other guide than himself. This method seems to me useful for preventing an author who is distrustful of himself from losing himself...

...they showed signs of ugliness, I could have killed them."—LES CONFESSIONS, part i, liv. vi. come a mature man, he will no longer need any other guide than himself. This method seems to me useful for preventing an author who is distrustful of himself from losing himself...

...he uses this term. His whole creed is virtually contained in the opening paragraph of the "Emile": "Everything is good as it comes from the hands of...Nature; but everything degenerates in the hands of man. He forces one country to nourish the productions of another; one tree to bear the fruits of another....

...that he forgot to take his daily walk. Pedagogy. — (a) Rousseau's first principle is, " Everyl/thing is good as it comes from the hands of the Author of nature ; everything degenerates in the hands of man." It follows, then, that education has only to prevent...

...of nature. The key-note of Rousseau's theory, as expressed in the opening paragraph of the Emile, is that "everything is good as it comes from the hands...nature, but everything degenerates in the hands of man." Mr. Davidson points out in his study of Rousseau that the air was full of nature panaceas during the...