Rousseau's Confessions was the favourite book of both (as it was of Emerson), but George Eliot was never converted by the high priest of sentimentalism into a belief in human perfectibility and a return to nature. [Please select]
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For this reign of the last absolute king of France was a time of hope and of belief in human perfectibility. [Please select]
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But she claimed to be the first to apply perfectibility to literature. [Please select]
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It was a foolish philosophy, which believed in ennui as an evidence and a means of human perfectibility. [Please select]
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But the state of perfectibility could be reached only by religious ceremonial observances and devout contemplation. [Please select]
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It logically leads to that other idea, of the native majesty of man and the perfectibility of society, which this sophist boldly accepted. [Please select]
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What it does involve is the highest conceivable grade of individual existence; in fact, of a grade so high that it is quite beyond conception,--in short, it involves human perfectibility. [Please select]
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