 | 1928 - 692 sider
...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... | |
 | National Educational Association (U.S.) - 1880 - 392 sider
...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,... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1880 - 390 sider
...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,... | |
 | William Harold Payne - 1882 - 92 sider
...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... | |
 | Gabriel Compayré - 1885 - 652 sider
...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... | |
 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau - 1892 - 424 sider
...argument—Virgil begins his ^Eneid with " arms arid the man," and Homer's Iliad with " Achilles's wrath " :'£ Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the...Nature; but everything degenerates in the hands of man." But is man as he comes from Nature good ? No, says Rousseau. " We are born weak—-we have need of... | |
 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau - 1892 - 424 sider
...demand more of me, for this is all I promise. fiMILE. BOOK FIRST. ISTAJfCY-OEXERAL PRINCIPLED EVEBTTHIXG is good as it comes from the hands of the Author of Nature ; but everything degenerates iu the hands of man.* He forces one country to nourish the productions of another; one tree to bear... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1895 - 1120 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.... | |
 | Levi Seeley - 1899 - 360 sider
...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... | |
 | Will Seymour Monroe - 1900 - 204 sider
...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... | |
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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. 
