Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)

The dominant belief of the best minds of the latter half of the eighteenth century was a passionate faith in the illimitable possibilities of human progress. Nothing short of a...

The many conditions of intellectual productiveness are still hidden in such profound obscurity that we are unable to explain why a period of stormy moral agitation seems to be i...

One whose most intense conviction was faith in the goodness of all things and creatures as they are first produced by nature, and so long as they remain unsophisticated by the h...

It would have been a strange anachronism if the decade of the Encyclopædia and the Seven Years' War had reproduced one of those scenes which are as still resting-places amid the...

The busy establishment of local academies in the provincial centres of France only preceded the outbreak of the revolution by ten or a dozen years; but one or two of the provinc...

Those to whom life consists in the immediate consciousness of their own direct relations with the people and circumstances that are in close contact with them, find it hard to f...

The commonplace theory which the world takes for granted as to the relations of the sexes, makes the woman ever crave the power and guidance of her physically stronger mate. Eve...

By what subtle process did Rousseau, whose ideal had been a summer life among all the softnesses of sweet gardens and dappled orchards, turn into panegyrist of the harsh austeri...

Men like Rousseau, who are most heedless in letting their delight perish, are as often as not most loth to bury what they have slain, or even to perceive that life has gone out...

Jean Jacques Rousseau was born at Geneva, June 28, 1712. He was of old French stock. His ancestors had removed from Paris to the famous city of refuge as far back as 1529, a lit...

Everybody in the full tide of the eighteenth century had something to do with Voltaire, from serious personages like Frederick the Great and Turgot, down to the sorriest poetast...

There is in an English collection a portrait of Jean Jacques, which was painted during his residence in this country by a provincial artist. Singular and displeasing as it is, y...

The band of dogmatic atheists who met round D'Holbach's dinner-table indulged a shallow and futile hope, if it was not an ungenerous one, when they expected the immediate advent...

Before leaving England, Rousseau had received more than one long and rambling letter from a man who was as unlike the rest of mankind as he was unlike them himself. This was the...

Simplification has already been used by us as the key-word to Rousseau's aims and influence. The scheme of musical notation with which he came to try his fortune in Paris in 174...

Christianity is the name for a great variety of changes which took place during the first centuries of our era, in men's ways of thinking and feeling about their spiritual relat...

Rousseau's deism, ii. 258, 260, 264-267, 269, 270, 276; its inadequacy for the wants of men, ii. 267-270; his position towards Christianity, ii. 270-276; real satisfaction of th...

final break with Diderot, i. 336; antecedents of his highest creative efforts, ii. 1; friends at Montmorency, ii. 2; reads the New Heloïsa to the Maréchale de Luxembourg, ii. 2;...

Rousseau, Jean Jacques, influence of his writings on France and the American colonists, i. 1, 2; on Robespierre, Paine, and Chateaubriand, i. 3; his place as a leader, i. 3; sta...

scheme of an elective aristocracy, ii. 172; similarity to the English form of government, ii. 173; the state in respect to religion, ii. 173; habitually illogical form of his st...

D'Alembert, i. 89; Voltaire's staunchest henchman, i. 321; his article on Geneva, i. 321; on Stage Plays, i. 326, _n._; on Position of Women in Society, i. 335; on Rousseau's le...

his own opinion of it, i. 138, 139; influence of Plato upon him, i. 146; second Discourse, i. 154; his "State of Nature," i. 159; no evidence for it, i. 172; influence of Montes...

Music, Rousseau undertakes to teach, i. 60; Rousseau's opinion concerning Italian, i. 105; effect of Galuppi's, i. 105; Rousseau earns his living by copying, i. 196; ii. 315; Ra...

Malesherbes, Rousseau confesses his ungrateful nature to, ii. 14; his dishonest advice to Rousseau, ii. 60; helps Diderot, ii. 62; and Rousseau in the publishing of Emilius, ii....

Position of Voltaire 302 General differences between him and Rousseau 303 Rousseau not the profounder of the two 305 But he had a spiritual element 305 Their early relations 308...

Philosophers, of Rousseau's time, contradicting each other, i. 87; Rousseau's complaint of the, i. 202; war between the, and the priests, i. 322; Rousseau's reactionary protest...

Locke, his Essay, i. 87; his notions, i. 87; his influence upon Rousseau, ii. 121-126; on Marriage, ii. 126; on Civil Government, ii. 149, 150, _n._; indefiniteness of his views...

pecuniary results of, i. 196; Diderot's praise of first Discourse, i. 200; Voltaire's acknowledgement of gift of second Discourse, i. 308; the, an attack on the general ordering...

denies it, ii. 81; his notion of how the matter would end, ii. 81; his fickleness, ii. 83; on Rousseau's connection with Corsica, ii. 101; his Philosophical Dictionary burnt by...

I.--Locke, on education 202 Difference between him and Rousseau 204 Exhortations to mothers 205 Importance of infantile habits 208 Rousseau's protest against reasoning with chil...

Local academies in France 132 Circumstances of the composition of the first Discourse 133 How far the paradox was original 135 His visions for thirteen years 136 Summary of the...

Distinction between the old and the new anchorite 234 Rousseau's first days at the Hermitage 235 Rural delirium 237 Dislike of society 242 Meditates work on Sensitive Morality 2...

Influence of Geneva upon Rousseau 187 Two sides of his temperament 191 Uncongenial characteristics of Parisian society 191 His associates 195 Circumstances of a sudden moral ref...

also Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, ii. 295; Danton's scheme for municipal administration of, ii. 168, _n._; two parties (those of Voltaire and of Rousseau) in, in 1793, i...

Influence of women upon Rousseau 46 Account of Madame de Warens 48 Rousseau takes up his abode with her 54 His delight in life with her 54 The seminarists 57 To Lyons 58 Wanderi...

Tutorship at Lyons 95 Goes to Paris in search of fortune 97 His appearance at this time 98 Made secretary to the ambassador at Venice 100 His journey thither and life there 103...

theories of education, practice better than precept, ii. 211; the idea of property, the first that Rousseau would have given to a child, ii. 212; modes of teaching, ii. 214, 215...

Confessions, the, not to be trusted for minute accuracy, i. 86, _n._; or for dates, i. 93; first part written 1766, ii. 301; their character, ii. 303; published surreptitiously,...

Rousseau's incomplete notion of justice, ii. 231; ideal of Emilius, ii. 232, 233; forbids early teaching of history, ii. 237, 238; disparages modern history, ii. 239; criticism...

Birth and descent 8 Predispositions 10 First lessons 11 At M. Lambercier's 15 Early disclosure of sensitive temperament 19 Return to Geneva 20 Two apprenticeships 26 Flight from...

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...

General character of Rousseau's aim in music 291 As composer 292 Contest on the comparative merits of French and Italian music 293 Rousseau's Letter on French Music 293 His sche...

goes to, in 1741, with his scheme of musical notation, i. 291; effect there of his letter on music, i. 295; Rousseau's imaginary contrast between, and Geneva, i. 329; Emilius or...