It is easy now, as it was easy for Rousseau in the last century, to ask in an Epigrammatical manner by how much men are better or happier for having found out this or that novelty in transcendental mathematics, biology, or astronomy; and this is very well as against the discoverer of small marvels who shall give himself out for the benefactor of the human race.
"Rousseau Volumes I. and II."
John Morley
As for the substance of his thinking, as we have already seen in the Discourses, and shall soon have an opportunity of seeing still more clearly, it was often as thin and hollow as if he had belonged to the company of the Epigrammatical, who, after all, have far less of a monopoly of shallow thinking than is often supposed.
"Rousseau Volumes I. and II."
John Morley
Many chapters of high-class comedy and Epigrammatical wit serve to explode a fallacious educational theory.
"Halleck's New English Literature"
Reuben P. Halleck