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Exaltation of marriage
Equalitarian tendencies .
Not inconsistent with social quietism
Compensation in the political consequences of the triumph
of sentiment
Circumstances of the publication of the New Heloïsa
Nature of the trade in books.
Malesherbes and the printing of Emilius .
Rousseau's suspicions
The great struggle of the moment
Proscription of Emilius
Flight of the author
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CHAPTER II.
PERSECUTION.
Rousseau's journey from Switzerland
Absence of vindictiveness
Arrival at Yverdun
Repairs to Motiers .
Relations with Frederick the Great .
Life at Motiers
Lord Marischal
Voltaire.
Rousseau's letter to the Archbishop of Paris
Its dialectic
The ministers of Neuchâtel
Rousseau's singular costume
His throng of visitors
Lewis, prince of Würtemberg -
Gibbon
Boswell
Corsican affairs
The feud at Geneva
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THE SOCIAL CONTRACT.
Rousseau's reaction against perfectibility
Abandonment of the position of the Discourses
Doubtful idea of equality
The Social Contract, a repudiation of the historic method
Yet it has glimpses of relativity
Influence of Greek examples
And of Geneva
Impression upon Robespierre and Saint Just
Rousseau's scheme implied a small territory
Why the Social Contract made fanatics
Verbal quality of its propositions
The doctrine of public safety
The doctrine of the sovereignty of peoples
Its early phases
Its history in the sixteenth century
Hooker and Grotius
Locke
Hobbes
Central propositions of the Social Contract---
1. Origin of society in compact
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Different conception held by the Physiocrats
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2. Sovereignty of the body thus constituted
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Difference from Hobbes and Locke .
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The root of socialism
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Republican phraseology.
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3. Attributes of sovereignty.
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4. The law-making power
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A contemporary illustration
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Hints of confederation
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5. Forms of government
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Criticism on the common division
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Rousseau's preference for elective aristocracy
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6. Attitude of the state to religion
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Rousseau's view, the climax of a reaction.
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Its effect at the French Revolution .
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Its futility
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Another method of approaching the philosophy of govern-
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Origin of society not a compact
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The true reason of the submission of a minority to a
majority
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Rousseau fails to touch actual problems
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The doctrine of resistance, for instance
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Historical illustrations
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Historical effect of the Social Contract in France and
Germany :
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Socialist deductions from it.
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CHAPTER IV.
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EMILIUS.
Rousseau touched by the enthusiasm of his time
Contemporary excitement as to education, part of the
revival of naturalism
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1.-Locke on education.
Difference between him and Rousseau
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Exhortations to mothers
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Importance of infantile habits
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Rousseau's protest against reasoning with children. 209
Criticised
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The opposite theory
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The idea of property
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Artificially contrived incidents
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Rousseau's omission of the principle of authority 215
Connected with his neglect of the faculty of sympathy 219
II.-Rousseau's ideal of living
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The training that follows from it
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The duty of knowing a craft .
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Social conception involved in this moral conception 226
III.-Three aims before the instructor
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Rousseau's omission of training for the social con-
science
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No contemplation of society as a whole .
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Personal interest, the foundation of the morality of
Emilius.
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The sphere and definition of the social conscience 235
IV.-The study of history
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Rousseau's notions upon the subject
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V.-Ideals of life for women .
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Rousseau's repudiation of his own principles . 242
His oriental and obscurantist position
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Arising from his want of faith in improvement 244
His reactionary tendencies in this region eventually
neutralised
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VI.-Sum of the merits of Emilius .
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Its influence in France and Germany
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In England.
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CHAPTER VO
THE SAVOYARD VICAR.
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Shallow hopes entertained by the dogmatic atheists
The good side of the religious reaction
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Its preservation of some parts of Christian influence 259
Earlier forms of deism
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The deism of the Savoyard Vicar
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The elevation of man, as well as the restoration of a divinity 265
A divinity for fair weather
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Religious self-denial
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The Savoyard Vicar's vital omission
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His position towards Christianity
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Its effectiveness as a solvent
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Weakness of the subjective test
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The Savoyard Vicar's deism not compatible with growing
intellectual conviction
The true satisfaction of the religious emotion .
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CHAPTER VI.
ENGLAND.
Rousseau's English portrait
His reception in Paris
And in London
Hume's account of him
Settlement at Wootton
The quarrel with Hume .
Detail of the charges against Hume
Walpole's pretended letter from Frederick
Baselessness of the whole delusion
'Hume's conduct in the quarrel
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