| 1912 - 668 sider
...keynote is again given in the opening pages: "Man is born good and everywhere he has become corrupt; everything is good as it comes from the hands of the...Nature; but everything degenerates in the hands of man." Amidst the paradoxes and apparent contradictions, amongst the errors and truths intermingled in the... | |
| Paul Monroe - 1911 - 784 sider
...healthy development of the child. The keynote to the whole work is sounded in the first sentence : " Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the...nature; but everything degenerates in the hands of man." See ROUSSEAU, JEAN JACQUES. EMMETROPIA. — See Era, HYGIENE or. EMORY AND HENRY COLLEGE EMORY, VA.... | |
| Paul Monroe - 1912 - 738 sider
...of utmost importance. Extreme as he was in asserting that the nature of the newborn infant is wholly good " as it comes from the hands of the Author of Nature," deteriorating only in the hands of man, he performed an incalculable service in directing the attention... | |
| James McKeen Cattell, Raymond Walters, Will Carson Ryan - 1915 - 536 sider
...the savage. Rousseau, for example, throughout his "Emile," which begins with the well-known words, "Everything is good as it comes from the hands of...Nature, but everything degenerates in the hands of man," tacitly assumes that the savage living in a so-called state of nature is far happier and has far more... | |
| Alan Dundes - 1989 - 196 sider
...criticized the practice on philosophical grounds. His basic premise, expressed in the opening sentence, was "Everything is good as it comes from the hands of...Nature; but everything degenerates in the hands of man." Rousseau cited swaddling as an extreme instance of human bondage. "Civilized man is born, lives, and... | |
| John Dewey - 1998 - 442 sider
...It meant a rebellion against existing social institutions, customs, and ideals. Rousseau's statement that everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Creator has its signification only in its contrast with the concluding part of the same sentence: "Everything... | |
| E. C. Spary - 2000 - 338 sider
...mele et confond les climats, les elements, les saisons; il mutile son chien, son cheval, son esclave" ('Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Author of things, everything degenerates in the hands of man. He forces one soil to nourish the productions of... | |
| Lorraine Curry - 2004 - 268 sider
...controversial. His arrest was ordered, but he left the country. In the introduction, Rousseau wrote: Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the...Nature; but everything degenerates in the hands of man .... He overturns everything, disfigures everything; he loves deformity, monsters; he will have nothing... | |
| Leopold Damrosch - 2005 - 586 sider
...declared at the beginning of Emile — all of his books are remarkable for memorable opening sentences — "Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the author of things; everything degenerates in the hands of man." Years after Emile became a success, Rousseau restated... | |
| Marjorie Wing Hirsch - 2007 - 195 sider
...(1778). from the corrupting influences, and especially the educational methods, of modern society: "Everything is good as it comes from the hands of...Nature; but everything degenerates in the hands of man."13 In so doing, he coupled the burgeoning eighteenth-century cult of sensibility with the concept... | |
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