Chapter 51

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 statements, ii. 173, 174; duty of sovereign to establish civil profession of faith, ii. 175, 176; infringement of it to be punished, even by death, ii. 176; Rousseau's Hobbism, ii. 177; denial of his social compact theory, ii. 183, 184; futility of his disquisitions on, ii. 185, 186; his declaration of general duty of rebellion (arising out of the universal breach of social compact) considered, ii. 188; it makes government impossible, ii. 188; he urges that usurped authority is another valid reason for rebellion, ii. 190; practical evils of this, ii. 192; historical effect of the Social Contract, ii. 192-195.

Social quietism of some parts of New Heloïsa, ii. 49.

Socialism: Morelly, and De Mably, ii. 52; what it is, ii. 159.

Socialistic theory of Morelly, i. 158, 159 (also i. 158, _n._)

Society, Aristotle on, i. 174; D'Alembert's statements on, i. 174, _n._; Parisian, Rousseau on, i. 209; dislike of, i. 242; Rousseau's origin of, ii. 153; true grounds of, ii. 155, 156.

Socrates, i. 131, 140, 232; ii. 72, 273.

Solitude, eighteenth century notions of, i. 231, 232.

Solon, ii. 133.

Sorbonne, the, condemns Emilius, ii. 82.

Spectator, the, Rousseau's liking for, i. 86.

Spinoza, dangerous speculations of, i. 143.

Staël, Madame de, i. 217, _n._

Stage players, how treated in France, i. 322.

Stage plays (see Plays).

State of Nature, Rousseau's, i. 159, 160; Hobbes on, i. 161 (see Nature).

Suicide, Rousseau on, ii. 16; a mistake to pronounce him incapable of, ii. 19.

Switzerland, i. 330.

TACITUS, i. 177.

Theatre, Rousseau's letter, objecting to the, i. 133; his error in the matter, i. 134.

Theology, metaphysical, Descartes' influence on, i. 226.

Theresa (see Le Vasseur).

Thought, school of, division between rationalists and emotionalists, i. 337.

Tonic Sol-fa notation, close correspondence of the, to Rousseau's system, i. 299.

Tronchin on Voltaire, i. 319, _n._, 321.

Turgot, i. 89; his discourses at the Sorbonne in 1750, i. 155; the one sane eminent Frenchman of eighteenth century, i. 202; his unselfish toil, i. 233; ii. 193; mentioned, ii. 246, 294.

Turin, Rousseau at, i. 34-43; leaves it, i. 45; tries to learn Latin at, i. 91.

Turretini and other rationalisers, i. 226; his works, i. 226, _n._

UNIVERSE, constitution of, discussion on, i. 311-317.

VAGABOND life, Rousseau's love of, i. 63, 68.

Val de Travers, ii. 77; Rousseau's life in, ii. 91-95.

Vasseur, Theresa Le, Rousseau's first acquaintance with, i. 106, 107, also _ib._ _n._; their life together, i. 110-113; well befriended, ii. 80, _n._; her evil character, ii. 326.

Vauvenargues on emotional instinct, ii. 34.

Venice, Rousseau at, i. 100-106.

Vercellis, Madame de, Rousseau servant to, i. 39.

Verdelin, Madame de, her kindness to Theresa, ii. 80, _n._; to Rousseau, ii. 118, _n._

Village Soothsayer, the (_Devin du Village_), composed at Passy, performed at Fontainebleau and Paris, i. 212; marked a revolution in French Music, i. 291.

Voltaire, i. 2, 21, 63; effect on Rousseau of his Letters on the English, i. 86; spreads a derogatory report about Rousseau, i. 101, _n._; his "Princesse de Navarre," i. 119; criticism on Rousseau's first Discourse, i. 147; effect on his work of his common sense, i. 155; avoids the society of Paris, i. 202; his conversion to Romanism, i. 220, 221; strictures on Homer and Shakespeare, i. 280; his position in the eighteenth century, i. 301; general difference between, and Rousseau, i. 301; clung to the rationalistic school of his day, i. 305; on Rousseau's second Discourse, i. 308; his poem on the earthquake of Lisbon, i. 309, 310; his sympathy with suffering, i. 311, 312; entreated by Rousseau to draw up a civil profession of religious faith, i. 317; denounced by Rousseau as a "trumpet of impiety," i. 317, 320, _n._; his satire and mockery irritated Rousseau, i. 319; what he was to his contemporaries, i. 321; the great play-writer of the time, i. 321; his criticism of Rousseau's Letter on the Theatre, i. 336; his indignation at wrong, ii. 11; ridicule of the New Heloïsa, ii. 34; less courageous than Rousseau, ii. 65; contrast between the two, i. 99, ii. 75; supposed to have stirred up animosity at Geneva against Rousseau,