This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI CONCLUSION.--ROUSSEAU'S INFLUENCE The history of the world is the judgment of the world. Schiller. Let him, the wiser man who springs Hereafter, up from childhood shape His action like the greater ape; But I was born for other things. Tennyson, In Memoriam, cxx. The history of mankind is a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI CONCLUSION.--ROUSSEAU'S INFLUENCE The history of the world is the judgment of the world. Schiller. Let him, the wiser man who springs Hereafter, up from childhood shape His action like the greater ape; But I was born for other things. Tennyson, In Memoriam, cxx. The history of mankind is a progress in the consciousness of freedom. Hegel. Having followed Rousseau's educational scheme from its beginning to its last effects upon manhood and womanhood, we have now to consider its value, to estimate its moral bearings, and to see whether it could properly lead to the results claimed for it. That the influence of Rousseau's ideas upon educational theory and practice was, and is, great, no one will deny. In education, as in other things, his passionate rhetoric and his scorn for the conventional existent, as contrasted with the ideal simplicity of Nature, roused men from their slumbers, and made them reconsider all that they had so long blindly taken for granted and bowed before. And in so far his work was invaluable. His bitter, sneering condemnation of the corrupt, hypocritical, fashionable life of his time, with its distorting, debasing, and dehumanizing notions of education, and his eloquent plea for a return to a life truly and simply human, and to an education based upon the principles of human nature and calculated to prepare for such a life, were righteous and well timed. His purpose was thoroughly right, and he knew how to make himself heard in giving expression to it. But, when he came to inform the world in detail how this purpose was to be carried out, he undertook a task for which he was not fitted either by natural endowment or by education. His passionate, sensuous, dalliant, and immoral nature prevented him from...
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. 8vo light brown cloth boards. Gilt lettering on backstrip. Lightly bumped corners. Shelf wear. Front and back hinges reinforced with white tape. Pencil markings throughout, mostly underlining and lines next to text. Ink blotch in bottom corners of pages 132 and 133. Pen lines, writing and Xs on page 221 onward. Pages and text are still clear and readable. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 550grams, ISBN:
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. With usual stamps and markings, In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Library sticker on front cover. Pen markings. Tight binding. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 600grams, ISBN:
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Rebound in plain green library binding. Library sticker on front cover. Fore edge badly stained. Pages edgeworn along top. Pencil markings in text. This book has hardback covers. Ex-library. With usual stamps and markings. in poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 550grams, ISBN:
