83-90; life at Val de Travers
(Motiers), ii. 91-95; his gener-
osity, ii. 93; corresponds with
the Prince of Wurtemberg on
the education of the prince's
daughter, ii. 95, 96; on Gibbon,
ii. 96; visit from Boswell, ii.
98; invited to legislate for
Corsica, ii. 99, n. ; urges Boswell
to go there, ii. 100; denounces
its sale by the Genoese, ii. 102;
renounces his citizenship of
Geneva, ii. 103; his Letters
from the Mountain, ii. 104;
the letters condemned to be
burned at Paris and the Hague, ii.
105; libel upon, ii. 105; religious
difficulties with his pastor, ii.
106; ill-treatment of, in parish,
ii. 106; obliged to leave it,
ii. 108; his next retreat, ii. 108;
account in the Rêveries of his
short stay there, ii. 109-115;
expelled by government of
Berne, ii. 116; makes an ex-
traordinary request to it, ii.
116, 117; difficulties in find-
ing a home, ii. 117; short stay
at Strasburg, ii. 117, 2 n.; decides
on going to England, ii. 118; his
Social Contract, and criticism
on, ii. 119, 196 (see Social
Contract); scanty acquaintance
with history, ii. 129; its effects
on his political writings, ii.
129, 136; his object in writing
Emilius, ii. 198; his confession
of faith, under the character of
the Savoyard Vicar(see Emilius),
ii. 257-280; excitement caused
by his appearance in Paris in
1765, ii. 282; leaves for Eng-
land in company with Hume,
ii. 283; reception in London,
ii. 283, 284; George III. gives
him a pension, ii. 284; his love

for his dog, ii. 286; finds a
home at Wootton, ii. 286;
quarrels with Hume, ii. 287;
particulars in connection with
it, ii. 287-296; his approaching
insanity at this period, ii. 296;
the preparatory conditions of
it, ii. 297-301; begins writing
the Confessions, ii. 301; their
character, ii. 301-304; life at
Wootton, ii. 305, 306; sudden
flight thence, ii. 306; kindness
of Mr. Davenport, ii. 306, 307;
his delusion, ii. 307; returns
to France, ii. 308; received at
Fleury by the elder Mirabeau,
ii. 310, 311; the prince of
Conti next receives him at
Trye, ii. 312; composes the
second part of the Confessions
here, ii. 312; delusion returns,
ii. 312, 313; leaves Trye, and
wanders about the country, ii.
312, 313; estrangement from
Theresa, ii. 313; goes to Paris, ii.
314; writes his Dialogues there,
ii. 314; again earns his living by
copying music, ii. 315; daily life
in, ii. 315, 316; Bernardin St.
Pierre's account of him, ii. 317-
321; his veneration for Fénelon,
ii. 321; his unsociality, ii. 322;
checks a detractor of Voltaire,
ii. 324; draws up his Con-
siderations on the Government
of Poland, ii. 324; estimate of
the Spanish, ii. 324; his poverty,
ii. 325; accepts a home at
Ermenonville from M. Girardin,
ii. 326; his painful condition,
ii. 326; sudden death, ii. 326;
cause of it unknown, ii. 326 (see
also ib. n.); his interment, ii. 326;
finally removed to Paris, ii. 328.

SAINTE BEUVE on Rousseau and

Madame d'Epinay, i. 279, n.;
on Rousseau, ii. 40.
Saint Germain, M. de, Rousseau's

letter to, i. 123.

Saint Just, ii. 132, 133; his
political regulations, ii. 133, n. ;
base of his system, ii. 136;
against the atheists, ii. 179.
Saint Lambert, i. 244; offers
Rousseau a home in Lorraine,
ii. 117.

Saint Pierre, Abbé de, Rousseau

arranges papers of, i. 244; his
views concerning reason, ib.;
boldness of his observations, i.
245.

Saint Pierre, Bernardin de, account
of his visit to Rousseau at Paris,
ii. 317-321.

Sand, Madame G., i. 81, n.; Savoy
landscape, i. 99, n. ancestry
of, i. 121, n.
Savages, code of morals of, i. 178-
179, n.

Savage state, advantages of, Rous-

seau's letter to Voltaire, i. 312.
Savoy, priests of, proselytisers, i.
30, 31, 33 (also ib. n.)
Savoyard Vicar, the, origin of
character of, ii. 257-280 (see
Emilius).

Schiller on Rousseau, ii. 192 (also
ib. n.); Rousseau's influence on,

ii. 315.

Servetus, ii. 180.

Simplification, the revolutionary
process and ideal of, i. 4; in
reference to Rousseau's music,
i. 291.

Social conscience, theory and de-

finition of, ii. 234, 235; the
great agent in fostering, ii.
237.

Social Contract, the, ill effect of,

on Europe, i. 138; beginning
of its composition, i. 177; ideas

of, i. 188; its harmful dreams,
i. 246; influence of, ii. 1; price
of, and difficulties in publish-
ing, ii. 59; ordered to be burnt
at Geneva, ii. 72, 73, 104; de-
tailed criticism of, ii. 119-196;
Rousseau diametrically opposed
to the dominant belief of his
day in human perfectibility, ii.
119; object of the work, ii.
120; main position of the two
Discourses given up in it, ii. 120;
influenced by Locke, ii. 120; its
uncritical, illogical principles,
ii. 123, 124; its impracticable-
ness, ii. 128; nature of his
illustrations, ii. 128-133; the
"gospel of the Jacobins," ii.
132, 133; the desperate absur-
dity of its assumptions gave it
power in the circumstances of
the times, ii. 135-141; some of
its maxims very convenient for
ruling Jacobins, ii. 142; its
central conception, the sove-
reignty of peoples, ii. 144;
Rousseau not its inventor, ii.
144, 145; this to be distin-
guished from doctrine of right
of subjects to depose princes,
ii. 146; Social Contract idea of
government, probably derived
from Locke, ii. 150; falseness
of it, ii. 153, 154; origin of
society, ii. 154; ill effects on
Rousseau's political speculation,
ii. 155; what constitutes the
sovereignty, ii. 158; Rousseau's
Social Contract different from
that of Hobbes, ii. 159; Locke's
indefiniteness on, ii. 160; attri-
butes of sovereignty, ii. 163,
confederation, ii. 164, 165; his
distinction between tyrant and
despot, ii. 169, n.; distinguishes
constitution of the state from

VAGABOND LIFE, Rousseau's love
of, i. 63, 68.

Val de Travers, ii. 77; Rousseau's
life in, ii. 91-95.
Vasseur, Theresa Le, Rousseau's

first acquaintance with, i. 106,
107, also ib. n. ; their life to-
gether, i. 110-113; well be-
friended, ii. 80, n.; her evil

character, ii. 326.
Vauvenargues on emotional in-
stinct, ii. 34.

Venice, Rousseau at, i. 100-106.
Vercellis, Madame de, Rousseau
servant to, i. 39.
Verdelin, Madame de, her kind-

ness to Theresa, ii. 80, n.; to
Rousseau, ii. 118, n.
Village Soothsayer, the (Devin du

Village), composed at Passy,
performed at Fontainebleau and
Paris, i. 212; marked a re-
volution in French Music, i.
291.

Voltaire, i. 2, 21, 63; effect on
Rousseau of his Letters on the
English, i. 86; spreads a deroga-
tory report about Rousseau, i.
101, n.; his "Princesse de Na-
varre," i. 119; criticism on Rous-
seau's first Discourse, i. 147;
effect on his work of his com-
mon sense, i. 155; avoids the
society of Paris, i. 202; his
conversion to Romanism, i. 220,
221; strictures on Homer and
Shakespeare, i. 280; his posi-
tion in the eighteenth century,
i. 301; general difference be-
tween, and Rousseau, i. 301;
clung to the rationalistic school
of his day, i. 305; on Rousseau's
second Discourse, i. 308; his
poem on the earthquake of
Lisbon, i. 309, 310; his sym-
pathy with suffering, i. 311,

66

312; entreated by Rousseau to
draw up a civil profession of
religious faith, i. 317; de-
nounced by Rousseau as a
'trumpet of impiety," i. 317,
320, n.; his satire and mockery
irritated Rousseau, i. 319;
what he was to his contempor-
aries, i. 321; the great play-
writer of the time, i. 321; his
criticism of Rousseau's Letter
on the Theatre, i. 336; his in-
dignation at wrong, ii. 11;
ridicule of the New Heloïsa, ii.
34; less courageous than Rous-
seau, ii. 65; contrast between
the two, i. 99, ii. 75; supposed
to have stirred up animosity at
Geneva against Rousseau, ii. 81;
denies it, ii. 81; his notion of
how the matter would end, ii. 81;
his fickleness, ii. 83; on Rous-
seau's connection with Corsica,
ii. 101; his Philosophical Dic-
tionary burnt by order at Paris,
ii. 105; his opinion of Emilius,
ii. 257; prime agent in intro-
ducing English deism into
France, ii. 262; suspected by
Rousseau of having written the
pretended letter from the King
of Prussia, ii. 288; last visit to
Paris, ii. 324.

WALKING, Rousseau's love of, i.
63.

Walpole, Horace, writer of the

pretended letter from the King
of Prussia, ii. 288, n. ; advises
Hume not to publish his ac-
count of Rousseau's quarrel
with him, ii. 295.

War arising out of the succession

to the crown of Poland, i. 72.
Warens, Madame de, Rousseau's
introduction to, i. 34; her per.