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Circumstances of the composition of the first Discourse
How far the paradox was original
His visions for thirteen years
Summary of the first Discourse
Obligations to Montaigne
And to the Greeks
Semi-Socratic manner
Objections to the Discourse.
Ways of stating its positive side
Dangers of exaggerating this positive side
Takes uniformity of process for granted
In what the importance of the second Discourse consisted
Its protest againt the mockery of civilization.
The equality of man, how true, and how false
This doctrine in France, and in America
Rousseau's Discourses, a reaction against the historic method
Mably, and socialism
CHAPTER VI.
PARIS.
Influence of Geneva upon Rousseau
Two sides of his temperament
Uncongenial characteristics of Parisian society
His associates
Circumstances of a sudden moral reform
Arising from his violent repugnance for the manners of the time
His assumption of a seeming cynicism
Protests against atheism
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CHAPTER VIII.
MUSIC.
General character of Rousseau's aim in music
As composer
Contest on the comparative merits of French and Italian music
Rousseau's Letter on French Music
His scheme of musical notation
Its chief element .
Its practical value
His mistake.
Two minor objections
CHAPTER IX.
VOLTAIRE AND D'ALEMBERT.
The true answer to Rousseau as to theory of dramatic morality
His arguments relatively to Geneva
Rousseau's contrast between Paris and an imaginary Geneva.
Attack on love as a poetic theme
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This letter, the mark of his schism from the party of the philosophers
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