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on primitive human nature, i. 175; his socialism, ii. 52; influence of his "model community" upon St. Just, ii. 133, _n._; advice to mothers, ii. 205.

Motiers, Rousseau's home there, ii. 77; attends divine service at, ii. 91; life at, ii. 91, 93.

Moultou (pastor of Motiers), his enthusiasm for Rousseau, ii. 82.

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; Rameau's criticism on Rousseau's _Muses Galantes_, i. 211; French, i. 291; Rousseau's letter on, i. 292; Italian, denounced at Paris, i. 292; Rousseau utterly condemns French, i. 294; quarrels with Gluck for setting his, to French words, ii. 323.

Musical notation, Rousseau's, i. 291; his Musical Dictionary, i. 296; his notation explained, i. 296-301; his system inapplicable to instruments, i. 301.

NAPLES, drunkenness, how regarded in, i. 331.

_Narcisse_, Rousseau's condemnation of his own comedy of, i. 215.

Nature, Rousseau's love of, i. 234-241; ii. 39; state of, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Hume on, i. 156-158; Rousseau's, in Second Discourse, i. 171-180; his starting-point of right, and normal constitution of civil society, ii. 124. See State of Nature.

Necker, ii. 54, 98, _n._

Neuchâtel, flight to principality of, by Rousseau, ii. 73; history of, ii. 73, _n._; outbreak at, arising from religious controversy, ii. 90; preparations for driving Rousseau out of, defeated by Frederick of Prussia, ii. 90; clergy of, against Rousseau, ii. 106.

New Heloïsa, first conception of, i. 250; monument of Rousseau's fall, ii. 1; when completed and published, ii. 2; read aloud to the Duchess de Luxembourg, ii. 3; letter on suicide in, ii. 16; effects upon Parisian ladies of reading the, ii. 18, 19; criticism on, ii. 20-55; his scheme proposed in it, ii. 21; its story, ii. 24; its purity, contrasted with contemporary and later French romances, ii. 24; its general effect, ii. 27; Rousseau absolutely without humour, ii. 27; utter selfishness of hero of, ii. 30; its heroine, ii. 30; its popularity, ii. 231, 232; burlesque on it, ii. 31, _n._; its vital defect, ii. 35; difference between Rousseau, Byron, and others, ii. 42; sumptuary details of the story, ii. 44, 45; its democratic tendency, ii. 49, 50; the bearing of its teaching, ii. 54; hindrances to its circulation in France, ii. 57; Malesherbes's low morality as to publishing, ii. 61.

OPTIMISM of Pope and Leibnitz, i. 309-310; discussed, ii. 128-130.

Origin of inequality among men, i. 156. See also Discourses.

PALEY, ii. 191, _n._

Palissot, ii. 56.

Paris, Rousseau's first visit to, i. 61; his second, i. 63, 97, 102; third visit, i. 106; effect in, of his first Discourse, i. 139, _n._; opinions in, on religion, laws, etc., i. 185; "mimic philosophy" there, i. 193; society in, in Rousseau's time, i. 202-211; his view of it, i. 210; composes there his _Muses Galantes_, i. 211; returns to, from Geneva, i. 228; his belief of the unfitness of its people for political affairs,