Kritikus abad ka-19 sane lianan, ngiring Rousseau, sampun nerima pabinaan ngajak budaya sane lebih tegeh lan lebih endep puniki, sakewala sampun nyingakin kasempurnaan lan kacanggihan budaya sane becik dados perkembangan sane ngusak lan nenten patut sane ngaburinlan ngadistorsi sifat esensial anak lianan.
Other 19th-century critics, following Rousseau, have accepted this differentiation between higher and lower culture, but have seen the refinement and sophistication of high culture as corrupting and unnatural developments that obscure and distort people's essential nature.