This title by Edmund Gosse acurately describes the author's mixture of personal and scholarly voice. Gosse describes the life and works of a number of prominent thinkers, and in his chapter on Rousseau, he makes a lively defense for the philosopher from Geneva. Aspects and Impressions points out that the first of Rousseau's detractors were largely political in nature, and the criticism was mainly focused on aspects of his writings that went against common trends.
