 | Howard Clive Barnard - 1922 - 470 sider
...these." The action of man is regarded as something outside " nature " and often in opposition to it. "Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Author of Nature; everything degenerates in the hands of man2." It is not difficult to pick holes in Rousseau's arguments,... | |
 | Emory Stephen Bogardus - 1922 - 524 sider
...of Rousseau's own theories, such as "Man is good naturally but by institutions he is made bad," and "Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Author of Nature; everything degenerates in the hands of man." Slavery is wrong, according to Rousseau.11 It is a contract... | |
 | Howard Clive Barnard - 1922 - 352 sider
...these." The action of man is regarded as something outside "nature " and often in opposition to it. " Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Author of Nature ; everything degenerates in the hands of man2." It is not difficult to pick holes in Rousseau's arguments,... | |
 | James Pendleton Lichtenberger - 1923 - 504 sider
...civilized man has deteriorated. This idea is most boldly asserted in the first paragraph in Entile. "Everything is good as it comes from the hands of...; but everything degenerates in the hands of man. . . . He will have nothing as Nature made it, not even man." 28 Equally striking is the opening sentence... | |
 | John Stacey Roberts - 1924 - 278 sider
...insincere, contradictory, empty, and destructive. Again, Rousseau in the opening sentence of the Emile said, "Everything is good as it comes from the hands of...Nature, but everything degenerates in the hands of man,"53 but on the next page he said, "We are born weak — we have need of strength, we are born destitute... | |
 | Frederick Eby - 1925 - 454 sider
...throughout Europe. Rousseau would change all this and return to the training which nature itself gives. "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.... | |
 | Mordecai Grossman - 1926 - 200 sider
...nature, the nature of the native tendencies. The very opening sentence of the fimile strikes the key. "Everything is good as it comes from the hands of...nature but everything degenerates in the hands of man." While this statement should not be interpreted as meaning that all the works of man are bad, yet it... | |
 | Floyd Dell - 1926 - 270 sider
...And yet there is no logical difference between the views of Byron and Rousseau. Byron could repeat: "Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Author of Things, but everything degenerates in the hands of man." But he would repeat it with a wry face. The... | |
 | Ohio State University - 1926 - 584 sider
...be normal in their stage of development." 2 Rousseau has told us that the child like everything else "is good as it comes from the hands of the Author of nature." Give him a chance to grow and develop and all things will be added unto him. Surround him with books... | |
 | 1896 - 594 sider
...deal. His whole creed is virtually contained in the opening paragraphs of his "Emile or Education. " "Everything is good as it comes from the hands of...Nature; but everything degenerates in the hands of man. Man forces one country to nourish the products of another; one tree to bear the fruits of another.... | |
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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. 
