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
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
We of the twentieth century are not going to accept the sweetish, faintly nasty slops of Rousseauism that so gratified our great-great-grandparents in the eighteenth.
From A Modern Utopia by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
There are two chapters of "Rousseauism," I have not touched yet--Rousseauism in Theology, and Rousseauism in Education.
From A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2 by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Lareveillere Lepaux, a member of the French Directory, invented a new religion of Theo-philanthropy which seems in fact to have been an organized Rousseauism.
From Lectures and Essays by Goldwin Smith
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