Academies (French), local, 89.
Academy, of Dijon, Rousseau writes
essays for, 90. French, prize essay
against Rousseau's Discourse, 100, n.
Actors, how regarded in France in
Rousseau's time, 216.

Althusen, teaches doctrine of sovereignty
of the people, 324.

America (U.S.), effects in, of the doc-
trine of the equality of men, 122.
American colonists indebted in eigh-
teenth century to Rousseau's writings,

2.

Anchorite, distinction between the old
and the new, 158.

Annecy, 22, 32; Rousseau's room at,
36; Rousseau's teachers at, 38; semi-
nary at, 55.

Aquinas, protest against juristical doc.
trine of law being the pleasure of the
prince, 322, 323.

Aristotle on Origin of Society, 117.
Atheism, Rousseau's protest against,

140; St. Lambert on, ib. n.; Robes-
pierre's protest against, 344; Chau-
mette put to death for endeavouring
to base the government of France on,
345.

Augustine (of Hippo), 406, 428.
Austin, John, 328, n.; on Sovereignty,
334.

Authors, difficulties of, in France in
the eighteenth century, 263–266.

Baboeuf, on the Revolution, 309, n.
Barbier, 244.

Basedow, his enthusiasm for Rousseau's

educational theories, 393.
Beaumont, De, Archbishop of Paris,
mandate against Rousseau issued by,
281; argument from, 283.
Bernard, maiden name of Rousseau's!
mother, 7.

Bienne, Rousseau driven to take refuge
in island in lake of, 298; his account
of, 298-303.

Bodin, on Government, 324; his de-
finition of an aristocratic state,
338, n.

Bonaparte, Napoleon, 294, n.
Bossuet, on Stage Plays, 217.
Boswell, James, 290; visits Rousseau,

291, also ib. n.; urged by Rousseau
to visit Corsica, 292; his letter to
Rousseau, 292, 293.

Boufflers, Madame de, 230; ib. n. ; 232.
Bougainville (brother of the navigator),
123, n.

Brutus, how Rousseau came to be
panegyrist of, 126.
Buffon, 362.

Calvin, 3, 127; Rousseau on, as a
legislator, 314; and Servetus, 345;
mentioned, 346.

Candide, thought by Rousseau to be
meant as a reply to him, 214.
Cardan, 428.

Cato, how Rousseau came to be his
panegyrist, 126.
Chambéri, probable date of Rousseau's
return to, 42, n.; takes up his
residence there, 46; effect on his
mind of a French column of troops
passing through, 48, 49; his illness
at, ib. n.

Charmettes, Les, Madame de Warens'
residence, 49; present condition of,
49, 50, n.; time spent there by
Rousseau, 289.
Charron, 361.

Chateaubriand, influenced by Rous-

seau, 2.

Chatham, Lord, 287.

Chaumette, 344; guillotined on charge
of endeavouring to establish atheism
in France, 345.
Chesterfield, Lord, 236.
Choiseul, 263, 268, 274.
Citizen, revolutionary use of word, de-
rived from Rousseau, 333.
Civilization, variety of the origin and
process of, 118; defects of, 118; one
of the worst trials of, 293.
Cobbett, 254.

Collier, Jeremy, on the English Stage,
217.

Condillac, 64.

Condorcet, 159; on Social Position of
Women, 225; human perfecti-
bility, 306; inspiration of, drawn
from the school of Voltaire and
Rousseau, 355; belief of, in the im-
provement of humanity, 389; grievous
mistake of, 390.

Confessions, the, not to be trusted for
minute accuracy, 57, n.; or for dates,
62, 63; first part written 1766, 426;
their character, 428; published sur-
reptitiously, 442, n.; readings from,
prohibited by police, 442.
Conti, Prince of, 229, 230, 232, 304;
receives Rousseau at Trye, 434.
Contract Social, 91.

Corsica, struggles for independence of,
291; Rousseau invited to legislate
for, 291-293; bought by France,
293.

Cowper, 14, 253; on Rousseau, 253,

n. ; lines in the Task, 394; his delu.
sions, 426.

Cynicism, Rousseau's assumption of,
139.

sia, 418; advises Hume to publish
account of Rousseau's quarrel with
him, 422.

D'Argenson, 346.

Dates of Rousseau's letters to be relied
on, not those of the Confessions, 62.
Davenport, Mr., provides Rousseau
with a home at Wootton, 416; his
kindness to Rousseau, 430.

Deism, Rousseau's, 398, 401, 402, 403-
406; that of others, 400, 401; short-
comings of Rousseau's, 405.
Democracy defined, 338; rejected by
Rousseau, as too perfect for men,
340.
D'Epinay, Madame, 131, 132, 138;
gives the Hermitage to Rousseau,
140, n.; his quarrels with, 182; his
relations with, 183, 186; journey to
Geneva of, 190; squabbles arising
out of it, between, and Rousseau,
Diderot, and Grimm, 191-195 ;
mentioned, 231, 243, 357; wrote on
education, 358; applies to secretary
of police to prohibit Rousseau's read-
ings from his Confessions, 442.
D'Epinay, Monsieur, 171, 243.
Descartes, 58, 151, 403, 406.
Deux Ponts, Duc de, Rousseau's rude
reply to, 139.

D'Holbach, 129; Rousseau's dislike of
his materialistic friends, 150, 251,
296.

D'Houdetot, Madame, 172, 173-181;

Madame d'Epinay's jealousy of, 186;
mentioned, 231; offers Rousseau a
home in Normandy, 304.
Diderot, 43, 59, 90; tries to manage
Rousseau, 143; his domestic mis-
conduct, 144; leader of the ma-
terialistic party, 150; on Solitary
Life, 155; his active life, ib.; with-
out moral sensitiveness, 176; men-
tioned, 176, 181, 182, 232; his rela-
tions with Rousseau, 183; accused of
pilfering Goldoni's new play, 184;
his relations and contentions with
Rousseau, 184, 185; lectures Rous-
seau about Madame d'Epinay, 191;
visits Rousseau after his leaving the
Hermitage, 194; Rousseau's final
breach with, 226; his criticism, and
plays, 249; his defects, ib. ;,thrown
into prison, 263; his difficulties with
the Encyclopædists, 264; his papers
saved from the police by Males-
herbes, 267.

Dijon, academy of, 89.
Discourses, The. Circumstances of the
composition of the first Discourse,
90, 91; summary of it, 93-97; (dis-
astrous effect of the progress of
sciences and arts, 94, 95; error more
dangerous, than truth useful, 95;
uselessness of learning and art, 95,
96; terrible disorders caused in
Europe by the art of printing, 96;
two kinds of ignorance, 97); the
relation of this Discourse to Mon-
taigne, 97; its one-sidedness and
hollowness, 98; shown by Voltaire,
100; its positive side, 100, 101;
second Discourse, origin of the Ine-
quality of Man, 103; summary of it,
106-114; (state of nature, 106-108;
Hobbes' mistake, 108; what broke
up the "state of nature," 110; its
preferableness, III, 112; origin of
society and laws, 113; new state of
nature," 114; main position of the
Discourse, ib.); its utter inconclu-
siveness, 114; criticism on its method,
ib.; on its matter, 115; wanting in
evidence, ib.; further objections to
it, 116; assumes uniformity of pro-
cess, 118; its unscientific character,
119; its real importance, 119; its
protest against the mockery of civili-
zation, 120; equality of man, 121;
different effects of this doctrine in
France and the United States ex-
plained, 122, 123; discovers a reac-
tion against the historical method of
Montesquieu, 123; pecuniary results
of, 132; Diderot's praise of first Dis-
course, 135; Voltaire's acknowledg-
ment of gift of second Discourse, 207;
the, an attack on the general order-
ing of society, 240; referred to, 253.
Drama, its proper effect, 219; what
would be that of its introduction
into Geneva, 219; true answer to
Rousseau's contentions, 220.
Dramatic morality, 219.

Drinkers, Rousseau's estimate of, 222.
Drunkenness, how esteemed in Swit-
zerland and Naples, 222.
Duclos, 139, 267, 268.
Duni, 196.

Dupin, "Madame de, Rousseau secre-
tary to, 80; her position in society,
131; Rousseau's country life with,
132; friend of the Abbé de Saint
Pierre, 164.

Education, interest taken in, in France
in Rousseau's time, 358, 359; its
new direction, 360; Locke, the
pioneer of, 360, 361; Rousseau's
special merit in connexion with, 361;
his views on (see Emilius, passim, as
well as for general consideration of),
what it is, 372; plans of, of Locke
and others, designed for the higher
class, 394; Rousseau's, for all, 395.
Emile, 91, 132.

Emilius, character of, 227, 228; parti.
culars of the publication of, 267,
268; effect of, on Rousseau's for-
tunes, 268; ordered to be burnt by
public executioner at Paris, 269;
at Geneva, 274; condemned by the
Sorbonne, 281; supplied (as also did
the Social Contract) dialect for the
longing in France and Germany to
return to nature, 353, 354; substance
of, furnished by Locke, 361; exami-
nation of, 357-412; mischief pro-
duced by its good advice, 362, 363;
training of young children. 363-365;
constantly reasoning with them, a
mistake of Locke's, 365; Rousseau's
central idea, disparagement of the
reasoning faculty, 365, 366; theories
of education, practice better than
precept, 366; the idea of property,
the first that Rousseau would have
given to a child, 367: modes of
teaching, 367, 368; futility of such
methods, 368, 369; where Rousseau
is right, and where wrong, 370, 372:
effect of his own want of parental
love, 372; teaches that everybody
should learn a trade, 374 ; no special
foresight, 375, 376; supremacy of the
common people insisted upon, 376.
377; three dominant states of mind
to be established by the instructor,
378, 379; Rousseau's incomplete
notion of justice, 379; ideal of Emi-
lius, 380, 382; forbids early teaching
of history, 383, 384; disparages
modern history, 384; criticism on
the old historians, 385; education of
women, 386; Rousseau's failure here,
387, 388; inconsistent with him-
self, 388, 389; worthlessness of his
views, 391; real merits of the work,
ib.; its effect in Germany. 392, 393;
not much effect on education in
England, 394; Emilius the first ex-
pression of democratic teaching in

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education, 394; Rousseau's deism,
397, 398, 401-403, 404, 405, 409;
its inadequacy for the wants of men,
403-405; his position towards Chris-
tianity, 406-408; real satisfaction
of the religious emotions, 409-412.
Encyclopædia, The, D'Alembert's arti-
cle on Geneva in, 89.

Encyclopædists, The society of, con-
firms Rousseau's religious faith, 148;
referred to, 396.

Evil, discussions on Rousseau's, Vol-
taire's, and De Maistre's teachings
concerning, 211-214; different effect
of existence of, on Rousseau and Vol-
taire, 214.

Fénelon, 250, 391; Rousseau's vene-
ration for, 440.

Ferguson, Adam, 394.

Filmer contends that a man is not
naturally free, 311.

Foundling Hospital, Rousseau sends
his children to the, 81.
France, debt of, to Rousseau, 2; Rous-
seau the one great religious writer
of, in the eighteenth century, 17;
his wanderings in the east of, 41;
his fondness for, 42, 48; establish-
ment of local academies in, 89;
decay in, of Greek literary studies,
98; effects in, of doctrine of equality
of man, 122; effects in, of Mon-
tesquieu's "Spirit of Laws," 123;
amiability of, in the eighteenth cen-
tury, 126; effect of Rousseau's
writings in, 127; collective organi-
zation in, 149; St. Pierre's strictures
on government of, 165; Rousseau on
government of, 166; effect of Rous-
seau's spiritual element on, 206;
patriotism wanting in, 223; diffi-
culties of authorship in, 263–268;
buys Corsica from the Genoese, 293;
state of, after 1792, apparently
favourable to the carrying out of
Rousseau's political views, 315, 316;
in 1793, 317; haunted by narrow
and fervid minds, 321.

Francueil, Rousseau's patron, 66; grand-
father of Madame George Sand, 66,
n.; Rousseau's salary from, 80;
country-house of, 132.
Franklin, Benjamin, 254.
Frederick of Prussia, relations between,
and Rousseau, 275-277; "famous
bull" of, 286.

Freeman on Growth of English Consti-
tution, 335.

French, principles of, revolution, 1, 2;
process and ideas of, 3; Rousseau of
old, stock, 6; poetry, Rousseau on,
60, 71, n.; melody, 71; academy,
thesis for prize, 100, n.; philo-
sophers, 136; music, 196; music, its
pretensions demolished by Rousseau,
198; ecclesiastics opposed to the
theatre, 216; stage, Rousseau on,
218; morals, depravity of, 243, 244;
Barbier on, 244; thought, benefit or
otherwise of revolution on, 262; his-
tory, evil side of, in Rousseau's time,
263; indebted to Holland for free-
dom of the press, 265; catholic and
monarchic absolutism sunk deep into
the character of the, 337.
French Convention, story of member of
the, 315, ".

Galuppi, effect of his music, 71.
Geneva, 6; characteristics of its people,
7; Rousseau's visit to, 62; influence
of, on Rousseau, 62; he revisits it
in 1754, 126-128, 146; turns Pro-
testant again there, 148; religious
opinion in, 150 (also n. 151); Rous-
seau thinks of taking up his abode in,
153; Voltaire at, 207; D'Alembert's
article on, in Encyclopædia, 216;
Rousseau's notions of effect of intro-
ducing the drama at, 219; council of,
order public burning of Emilius and
the Social Contract, and arrest of the
author if he came there, 274; the
only place where the Social Contract
was actually burnt, ib. n.; Voltaire
suspected to have had a hand in the
matter, 280; council of, divided into
two camps by Rousseau's condem-
nation, in 1762, 294; Rousseau

renounces his citizenship in, 295;
working of the republic, 295.
Genevese, Bishop Burnet on, 151;

Rousseau's distrust of, 153; his pane-
gyric on, 220; manners of, according
to Rousseau, 222; their complaint of
it, 222.

Genlis, Madame de, 442.

Genoa, Rousseau in quarantine at, 69;
Corsica sold to France by, 293.
Germany, sentimental movements in,
248.

Gibbon, Edward, at Lausanne, 290.
Girardin, St. Marc, on Rousseau, 75,