Muther, Richard, 1860-1909 · London : J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton · leaf 67
eat,aristocratic spirit, a man who despised such a society and would make theworld anew. Such is ones impression of the effect produced at the time by theappearance of Jean Jacques Rousseau. Voltaire was the first on the Continentto break through social barriers, but none the less he coined his… … of a common man in order to earn his bread as a copier of music. He is, asWeigandt has called him, the first man of the bourgeois centurj-, the firstpioneer of the new age. Against the traditions bequeathed by the past, _ which in the course of time hadT*^^; become over-refined and corrupt,he set…
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