Word: roussean
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...undeniable that throughout the nineteenth century, in fact even earlier, ever since the influence of Roussean and others of like mind began to make itself felt, the peoples of Western culture have been living in an atmosphere of steadily increasing disregard of the Real--the Real in the sense of that fundamental essence which makes the animal known as Homo sapiens a human being it is now not customary--nor fashionable for a man of letter or an artist, to seek out the essentially human standard by means of his imagination, and then create in accordance with it. Standards...
...those taking the higher French courses. The library was started some years ago, and has received much life and vigor from Professor Cohn, who has had charge of it for several years. It contains about 606 volumes, including encyclopedias and dictionaries of all kinds, and five sets of Roussean, Moliore and Voltaire. A the death of Professor Jacquinot in 1883, the library received many valuable books from him. Among other interesting things there is an autograph letter of Lamartine, given last year. But the library is in much need of gifts of books or money, by graduates or undergraduates...
...from generation to generation, are still conspicuous in the great masses of people. Happily a reaction in favor of the Greek point of view with regard to the relations of body and mind set in, and the "gray-eyed morning" of a new era smiled on the frowning night. Roussean, the great apostle of freedom, hurled the thunders of his fiery eloquence against the strongholds of mental despotism and traditional authority with terrible effect, and on their ruins he laid the corner stone of a new educational empire. Roussean's Emile was the great event of the last century prior...