Rousseauism
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It must be confessed that his own shallow political science, the second-hand Rousseauism he had learned from his desultory reading, had little to do with this, except negatively.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) by William Milligan Sloane
By Rousseauism we indicate the doctrinal dream of that dreamer; by no means the actual waking practice of the man that dreamed.
From French Classics by William Cleaver Wilkinson
His dogged conservatism prevented him from recognising the strength of the philosophical movements which were beginning to clothe themselves in Rousseauism.
From English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century by Sir Leslie Stephen
It was all Rousseauism in experiment and reduced to absurdity.
From French Classics by William Cleaver Wilkinson
Rousseauism is, indeed, in its essence the application to education of the doctrines of naturalism—the philosophy which regards human life as a mere continuation of physical process, and consequently as determined wholly by environment.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various
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