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SOCIAL FORCES IN MODERN LITERATURE

But men are composed of social as well as of these unso-
cial instincts. Whether it was external danger, or mutual
advantage, or mere blind instinct that brought them to-
gether into the first stage of society, Rousseau does not
clearly indicate. But this is the paradise of idyllic senti-
mentality, as the first was of blind stupidity. It is beautiful
as painted by the pastoral poets of ancient Greek literature,
as praised by the later pastoral poets of the Renaissance, and
as described with almost hysterical enthusiasm by Rousseau.
