Produced by Paul Murray, LN Yaddanapudi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net DIDEROT AND THE ENCYCLOPAEDISTS BY JOHN MORLEY VOL. II. London MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1905 _First published elsewhere_ _New Edition 1886. Reprinted 1891, 1897, 1905_ CONTENTS OF VOL. II. PAGE CHAPTER I. OTHER DIALOGUES. (1) _The Conversations of a Father with his Children_ 1 Remarks upon it. (2) _The Inconsistency of Public Judgment on Private Actions_ 8 Observations. (3) _Supplement to Bougainville's Travels_ 14 Philosophical qualities of the discussion not satisfactory 19 Nothing gained by his criticism on marriage 21 CHAPTER II. ROMANCE. Digression inevitable in dealing with Diderot 24 Richardson's influence in Europe 26 Diderot's _Eloge_ upon him 28 Rousseau and Richardson 29 Diderot writes _The Nun_ (1796) 31 Circumstances of its composition 32 Its intention 33 And characteristics 35 Sterne 36 Diderot writes _Jacques le Fataliste_ 37 Its history 38 Goethe's criticism on it 38 Nature of Diderot's imitation of Richardson and Sterne 40 No true creation in _Jacques le Fataliste_ 41 Its unredeemed grossness 43 Its lack of poetry and of flavour 44 CHAPTER III. ART.