 | William Harold Payne - 1901 - 286 sider
...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.... | |
 | Ellwood Leitheiser Kemp - 1901 - 402 sider
...described in the book. The, key to the theory propounded in Emile is contained in the first propositions. " Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Author of The NaVare ; but everything degenerates in the introduction hands of man. . , . He overturns every-... | |
 | William T. Harris, A. M., LL. D. - 1902 - 420 sider
...when they showed signs of ugliness, I could have killed them."—LES CONFESSION^ 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... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1903 - 280 sider
...Ronsseau juge de Jean Jaeques : Dialogue, ii. the master-principle of all his thought and teaching. Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the...; but everything degenerates in the hands of man." This is the opening paragraph of fimile ; and this, stated or implied, is the text of all his writings... | |
 | Charles Hubbard Judd - 1911 - 360 sider
...Franke and others had thought the child's nature evil, hear the opening sentence of Rousseau's book : " Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the...Nature, but everything degenerates in the hands of man." 1 And then if you will follow the later argument of the book, you will find Rousseau carrying out the... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1903 - 284 sider
...sentence only re-enunciates what we have seen to be the master-thought of his earlier writings : " Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the...nature; but everything degenerates in the hands of man." Full of repetitions, digressions, and extraneous matter, and everywhere clogged with detail, — "... | |
 | Joseph Schimmel Taylor - 1903 - 130 sider
...attacked this doctrine of childish depravity. His opening words of the first book of the Emile are : " Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Author of things ; everything degenerates in the hands of man." It follows from this that a child must be allowed... | |
 | 1908 - 660 sider
...knowledge."' Especially strong is their plea for freedom in education. The first sentence of the "Emile" is, "Everything is good as it comes from the hands of...; but everything degenerates in the hands of man." Education should first be natural. Tolstoi says, "Education perverts a child, it cannot 1 AE Street,... | |
 | Charles Oliver Hoyt - 1908 - 250 sider
...more complete idea of his views may be obtained by a study of the following quotations from his Emile: "Everything is good as it comes from the hands of...nature, but everything degenerates in the hands of man." "The natural man is complete in himself; he is the numerical unit, the absolute whole, who is related... | |
 | George Ellsworth Dawson - 1909 - 144 sider
...corruption in civic and social life, the opening words of his Emile may well have seemed literally true : " Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the...Nature, but everything degenerates in the hands of man." This sentence epitomizes Rousseau's philosophy of education. Man perverts and spoils everything he... | |
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Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Author of Nature; but everything degenerates in the hands of man. 
