Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)

Chapter 41

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helps to get Emilius published, ii. 63-64, 67.

Lycurgus, ii. 129, 131; influence of, upon Saint Just, ii. 133.

Lyons, Rousseau a tutor at, i. 95-97.

MABLY, De, i. 95; his socialism, i. 184; applied to for scheme for the government of Poland, ii. 324.

Maistre, De, i. 145; on Optimism, i. 314.

Maitre, Le, teaches Rousseau music, i. 58.

Malebranche, i. 87.

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. 62, 63; endangered by it, ii. 67; asks Rousseau to collect plants for him, ii. 76.

Man, his specific distinction from other animals, i. 161; his state of nature, i. 161; Hobbes wrong concerning this, i. 161; equality of, i. 180; effects of this doctrine in France and in the United States, i. 182; not naturally free, ii. 126.

Mandeville, i. 162.

Manners, Rousseau's, Marmontel, and Grimm on, i. 205, 206; Rousseau on Swiss, i. 329, 330; depravity of French, in the eighteenth century, ii. 25, 26.

Marischal, Lord, friendship between, and Rousseau, ii. 79-81; account of, ii. 80; on Boswell, ii. 98

Marmontel, on Rousseau's manners, i. 206; on his success, ii. 2.

Marriage, design of the New Heloïsa to exalt, ii. 46-48, _ib._ _n._

Marsilio, of Padua, on Law, ii. 145.

Men, inequality of, Rousseau's second Discourse (see Discourses), dedicated to the republic of Geneva, i. 190; how received there, i. 228.

Mirabeau the elder, Rousseau's letter to, from Wootton, ii. 305, 306; his character, ii. 309-312; receives Rousseau at Fleury, ii. 311.

Mirabeau, Gabriel, Rousseau's influence on, ii. 315.

Molière (Misanthrope of), Rousseau's criticism on, i. 329; D'Alembert on, i. 329.

Monarchy, Rousseau's objection to, ii. 171.

Montaigu, Count de, avarice of, i. 101, 102.

Montaigne, Rousseau's obligations to, i. 145; influence of, on Rousseau, ii. 203.

Montesquieu, "incomplete positivity" of, i. 156; on Government, i. 157; effect of his Spirit of Laws on Rousseau, i. 183; confused definition of laws, ii. 153; balanced parliamentary system of, ii. 163; his definition of forms of government, ii. 169.

Montmorency, Rousseau goes to live there, i. 229; his life at, ii. 2-9.

Montpellier, i. 92.

Morals, state of, in France in the eighteenth century, ii. 26.

Morellet, thrown into the Bastile, ii. 57.

Morelly, his indirect influence on Rousseau, i. 156; his socialistic theory, i. 157, 158; his rules for organising a model community, i. 158, _n._; his terse exposition of inequality contrasted with that of Rousseau,