Rousseauism
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It reverts to the age of Louis XIV., and Rousseauism in their literature is as true an innovation and parenthesis as Pope-and-Drydenism was in ours.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes
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 Sloane, William Milligan
It was all Rousseauism in experiment and reduced to absurdity.
From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver
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
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 Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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