Rousseau and Naturalism in Life and Thought: By William Henry HudsonC. Scribner's sons, 1903 - 260 pages |
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Page 196 - Thus the whole education of women ought to be relative to men. To please them, to be useful to them, to make themselves loved and honored by them, to educate them when young, to care for them when grown, to counsel them, to console them, and to make life agreeable and sweet to them — these are the duties of women at all times, and what should be taught them from their infancy.
Page 181 - Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Author of Nature; but everything degenerates in the hands of man.
Page 145 - Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and of one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic...
Page 240 - It was in reality this which made him the mighty power he was. Personal conviction, and the emotion bred of such conviction, are always contagious. It was by the strength of such conviction and emotion that Rousseau entered as a vitalising force into the spiritual life of his age. To trace in detail the influence of Rousseau upon the writers and thinkers who themselves were leaders in the second half of the eighteenth and the early years of the nineteenth centuries, would require, not a few paragraphs...
Page 60 - What is the origin of inequality among men, and is it authorised by natural law ?" Struck by the grandeur of the subject, he retired with The"rese to St.
Page 136 - Do not listen to this impostor. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!
Page 223 - ... the way I came, and confined my creed within the limits of my first notions. I could never believe that God required me, under pain of eternal damnation, to be so very learned; and, therefore, I shut up all my books. The book of nature lies open to every eye. It is from this sublime and wonderful volume that I learn to serve and adore its Divine Author. No person is excusable for neglecting to read this book, as it is written in an universal language, intelligible to all mankind. Had I been born...
Page 29 - ... appetising though already cut, and a bottle of wine, the sight of which gladdened my heart more than all the rest; to this he added a thick omelette; and I made such a dinner as no pedestrian ever before sat down to. When it came to paying him, his disquietude and fear again took possession of him ; he did not wish...
Page 171 - ... consequences which inevitably ensue when what he insists upon as the natural order of things is upset, and that sex is raised to pre-eminence whose proper place is one of subordination. " French gallantry has given universal power to women. . . . Everything depends upon them, and nothing is done save by them or for them. Olympus and Parnassus, glory and fortune, are equally under their laws. Books sell, authors are esteemed, only as it pleases women. They decide authoritatively concerning the...
Page 149 - That which distinguishes the French Revolution from other political movements is, that it was directed by men who had adopted certain speculative a priori conceptions of political right, with the fanaticism and proselytising fervour of a religious belief, and the Bible of their creed was the Contrat Social of Rousseau ' (History of England in the Eighteenth Century, vol.