Excerpt from Jean Jacques RousseauJoseph Texte uses the word in this meaning, but he is neither nationalist nor Chinaman - he considers the pure, Old, unalloyed, and unadulterated French classicism as irrevocably lost, but he does not look upon the Germanic infusion as any great misfortune; on the contrary, he thinks that the intellectual nature Of the French has gained by the crossing Of the races, has expanded, grown in rich ness and fulness and variety, without losing any of its peculiarities - that Victor Hugo is just as French as Racine, even though he could not have been evolved without Schiller and Byron.SO Texte analyses the literary cosmopolitanism as a fortunate phenomenon and attributes its origin to Jean Jacques Rousseau. His explanation is based partly on the fact that Rousseau had assimilated certain Germanic, Northern, notably English elements, partly on the circum stance that he, On account of his peculiar temperament and the course of his development, became the great revolter against the classic Spirit, and thus prepared the way by his writing for the invasion Of the German spirit. He was the father of literary cosmopolitanism.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.