...and its folly: "All is well as it comes from the hands of the Creator; all degenerates in the hand of man. He forces one country to nourish the productions of another; one tree to bear the fruit of another; he mixes and compounds climates, elements, seasons; he mutilates his dog, his horse,...

...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 the Author of Nature, but everything degenerates in the hands of man." Now we, in turn, step ahead of Rousseau and say that...

...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...nature; everything degenerates in the hands of man." / 12. " Nature " is not the beneficent goddess and the infallible guide that the modern theory of education...

...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...nature; everything degenerates in the hands of man." And in another place, " Let us assume as an incontestable maxim that the first movements of nature...

...is undoubtedly wrong. " Everything is good," he says, " as it comes from the hands of the Creator ; everything degenerates in the hands of man. He forces one country to bring forth the productions of another ; one tree to bear the fruits of another ; he mingles and confuses...

...Virgil begins his ^Eneid with " arms and the man," and Homer's Iliad with " Achilles's wrath " : " Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Author of Nature ; but everything degenerates in the hands of man." But is man aa he comes from Nature good ? No, says...

...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 Author of Nature; but everything degenerates in the hands of man." But is man as he comes from Nature good ? No, says...

...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 the Author of Nature; but everything degenerates in the hands of man. He forces one country to nourish the productions of...

...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 the 1 " Schoolmaster in Literature," pp. 40-63....

...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 of the author of nature, but everything degenerates in the hands of man." Mr. Davidson points out in his study of Rousseau that...