1749, the award-winning essay "Can the progress of science and art improve or reduce morality?" was published by the French College of Dieng. Rousseau's applied thesis won the first prize, which had a great influence on the society and became a famous scholar and thinker. In this article, he asserted that the progress of science and art corrupted morality and customs. He said: "As the light of science and art rises on our horizon, virtue disappears." This view of opposing science and morality is obviously wrong. But Rousseau's original intention was not to attack science and art, but to "storm the affected and utopian society at that time", and he won the first place with thorough anti-feudalism.