ROUSSEAU

R O U S S E A U

BY

JOHN MORLEY

VOL. II.

London

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1900

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1886

V.2

First printed in this form 1886
Reprinted 1888, 1891, 1896, 1900

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

CHAPTER I.

MONTMORENCY-THE NEW HELOÏSA.

PAGE

1

Conditions preceding the composition of the New Heloïsa

The Duke and Duchess of Luxembourg

2

Rousseau and his patrician acquaintances

4

Peaceful life at Montmorency.

9

Equivocal prudence occasionally shown by Rousseau

12

His want of gratitude for commonplace service

13

Bad health, and thoughts of suicide

16

Episode of Madame Latour de Franqueville

17

Relation of the New Heloïsa to Rousseau's general doc-

trine

20

Action of the first part of the story.

25

Contrasted with contemporary literature .

25

And with contemporary manners

27

Criticism of the language and principal actors .

Popularity of the New Heloïsa

31

Its reactionary intellectual direction

33

Action of the second part

35, 36

Its influence on Goethe and others.

38

Distinction between Rousseau and his school

40

Singular pictures of domesticity

42

Sumptuary details.

44

The slowness of movement in the work justified

46

28, 29

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