Word: rousseau
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...never held that man was vile. It was for this very reason that he found himself in disagreement with the teachings of Christianity. He spoke of the original sin as a "theological nightmare." La Rochefoucauld was as much his enemy as Rousseau. For him, man was neither bestial nor divine; he was human; that is, he was torn between a higher will and a lower...
...Comparative Literature at Harvard; after long illness; in Cambridge, Mass. Hating modernism, romanticism, the "Machine Age," he went back to the Greek and Roman classics for an austere doctrine which, with Princeton's Paul Elmer More, he fervently preached. In his lectures he loved to excoriate Jean Jacques Rousseau, No. 1 French romanticist; two years ago his students ran lotteries based on the number of writers Professor Babbitt mentioned in a 60-min. lecture (TIME, March...
...features, the artistic, philosophical, and critical life of today are an integral part of the Romantic Movement which flourished most brightly in the early part of the last century. In this sense he was dissatisfied with the "modern movement", which he was able to track back to Jean-Jacques Rousseau in one of his chief works, "Rouseau and, Romanticism". His other books extend the idea of intellectual and moral decline since the days of Rousseau and the democratic theorists to the field of politics in "Democracy and Leadership", to modern education, in "Literature and the American College...
...following year he returned to Harvard, however, and held the post of instructor of French until 1902, when he became an assistant professor. Since 1912 he has been a full professor, and has gained much fame from his courses, Comparative Literature 9 and 11, chiefly on the subject of Rousseau and the Romantic Movement. In 1923 he was away from Cambridge as exchange professor at the Sorbonne, in Paris...
...green bud. In the church, he becomes solemn, and regards his image on the glistering toe of his boot, with a feeling of wonder. Falling in with a party of friends, he skips merrily along, not a thought in his head. Like an intellectual kitten, he likens himself to Rousseau; for a moment he toys with the idea of completing this marvelous day by inviting his soul in a boat, but his more mundane friends, drag him off on their worldly course. The Easter afternoon blurs and shimmers in a quintessential furor of sheer delight. The Vagabond realizes that Nirvana...