Chapter 47

positive dogmas of this, ii. 176; Rousseau's "pure Hobbism," ii. 177. See Savoyard Vicar (Emilius), ii. 256, 281.

Renou, Rousseau assumes name of, i. 129; ii. 312.

Revelation, Christian, Rousseau's controversy on, with Archbishop of Paris, ii. 86-91.

_Rêveries_, Rousseau's relinquishing society, i. 199; description of his life in the isle of St. Peter, in the, ii. 109-115; their style ii. 314.

Revolution, French, principles of, i. 1, 2; benefits of, or otherwise, ii. 54; Baboeuf on, ii. 123, 124, _n._; the starting point in the history of its ideas, ii. 160.

Revolutionary process and ideal i. 4, 5.

Revolutionists, difference among, i. 2.

Richardson (the novelist), ii. 25, 28.

Richelieu's brief patronage of Rousseau, i. 195, 302.

Rivière, de la, origin of society, ii. 156, 157; anecdote of, ii. 156, 157, _n._

Robecq, Madame de, ii. 56.

Robespierre, ii. 123, 134, 160, 178, 179; his "sacred right of insurrection," ii. 188, _n._; Rousseau's influence on, ii. 315.

Rousseau, Didier, i. 8.

Rousseau, Jean Baptiste, i. 61, _n._

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; starting-point, of his mental habits, i. 4; personality of, i. 4; influence on the common people, i. 5; his birth and ancestry, i. 8; pedigree, i. 8, _n._; parents, i. 10, 11; influence upon him of his father's character, i. 11, 12; his reading in childhood, i. 12, 13; love of Plutarch, i. 13; early years, i. 13, 14; sent to school at Bossey, i. 15; deterioration of his moral character there, i. 17; indignation at an unjust punishment, i. 17, 18; leaves school, i. 20; youthful life at Geneva, i. 21, 22; his remarks on its character, i. 24; anecdotes of it, i. 22, 24; his leading error as to the education of the young, i. 25, 26; religious training, i. 25; apprenticeship, i. 26; boyish doings, i. 27; harshness of his master, i. 27; runs away, i. 29; received by the priest of Confignon, i. 31; sent to Madame de Warens, i. 84; at Turin, i. 35; hypocritical conversion to Roman Catholicism, i. 37; motive, i. 38; registry of his baptism, i. 38, _n._; his forlorn condition, i. 39; love of music, i. 39; becomes servant to Madame de Vercellis, i. 39; his theft, lying, and excuses for it, i. 39, 40; becomes servant to Count of Gouvon, i. 42; dismissed, i. 43; returns to Madame de Warens, i. 45; his temperament, i. 46, 47; in training for the priesthood, but pronounced too stupid, i. 57; tries music, i. 57; shamelessly abandons his companion, i. 58; goes to Freiburg, Neuchâtel, and Paris, i. 61, 62; conjectural chronology of his movements about this time. i. 62, _n._; love of vagabond life, i. 62-68; effect upon him of his intercourse with the poor, i. 68; becomes clerk to a land surveyor at Chambéri, i. 69; life there, i. 69-72; ill-health and retirement to Les Charmettes, i. 73; his latest recollection of this time, i. 75-77; his "form of worship," i. 77; love of nature, i. 77, 78; notion of deity, i. 77; peculiar intellectual feebleness, i. 81; criticism on himself, i. 83; want of logic in his mental constitution, i. 85; effect on him of Voltaire's Letters on the English, i. 85; self-training, i. 86; mistaken method of it, i. 86, 87; writes a comedy, i. 89; enjoyment of rural life at Les Charmettes, i. 91, 92; robs Madame de Warens, i. 92; leaves her, i. 93; discrepancy between dates of his letters and the Confessions, i. 93; takes a tutorship at Lyons, i. 95; condemns the practice of writing Latin, i. 96, _n._; resigns his tutorship, and goes to Paris, i. 97; reception there, i. 98-100; appointed secretary to French Ambassador at Venice, i. 100-106; in quarantine at Genoa, i. 104; his estimate of French melody, i. 105; returns to Paris, i. 106; becomes acquainted with Theresa Le Vasseur, i. 106; his conduct criticised, i. 107-113; simple life, i. 113; letter to her, i. 115-119; his poverty, i. 119; becomes secretary to Madame Dupin and her son-in-law, M. de Francueil, i. 119; sends his children to the foundling hospital, i. 120, 121; paltry excuses for the crime, i. 121-126; his pretended marriage under the name of Renou, i. 129; his Discourses, i. 132-186 (see Discourses); writes essays for academy of Dijon, i. 132; origin of first essay, i. 133-137; his "visions" for thirteen years, i. 138; evil effect upon himself of the first Discourse, i. 138; of it, the second Discourse and the Social Contract upon Europe,