[357] To Thieriot, Sept. 17, 1758. To D'Alembert, Oct. 20, 1761. _Ib._ March 19, 1761. END OF VOL. I. _Printed by_ R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED, _Edinburgh_ * * * * * ROUSSEAU BY JOHN MORLEY VOL. II. London MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1905 _All rights reserved_ _First printed in this form 1886_ _Reprinted 1888, 1891, 1896, 1900, 1905_ CONTENTS OF VOL. II. CHAPTER I. MONTMORENCY--THE NEW HELOÏSA. Conditions preceding the composition of the New Heloïsa 1 The Duke and Duchess of Luxembourg 2 Rousseau and his patrician acquaintances 4 Peaceful life at Montmorency 9 Equivocal prudence occasionally shown by Rousseau 12 His want of gratitude for commonplace service 13 Bad health, and thoughts of suicide 16 Episode of Madame Latour de Franqueville 17 Relation of the New Heloïsa to Rousseau's general doctrine 20 Action of the first part of the story 25 Contrasted with contemporary literature 25 And with contemporary manners 27 Criticism of the language and principal actors 28, 29 Popularity of the New Heloïsa 31 Its reactionary intellectual direction 33 Action of the second part 35, 36 Its influence on Goethe and others 38 Distinction between Rousseau and his school 40 Singular pictures of domesticity 42 Sumptuary details 44 The slowness of movement in the work justified 46 Exaltation of marriage 47 Equalitarian tendencies 49 Not inconsistent with social quietism 51 Compensation in the political consequences of the triumph of sentiment 54 Circumstances of the publication of the New Heloïsa 55 Nature of the trade in books 57 Malesherbes and the printing of Emilius 61 Rousseau's suspicions 62 The great struggle of the moment 64 Proscription of Emilius 67 Flight of the author 67 CHAPTER II. PERSECUTION. Rousseau's journey from Switzerland 69 Absence of vindictiveness 70 Arrival at Yverdun 72 Repairs to Motiers 73 Relations with Frederick the Great 74 Life at Motiers 77 Lord Marischal 79 Voltaire 81 Rousseau's letter to the Archbishop of Paris 83 Its dialectic 86 The ministers of Neuchâtel 90 Rousseau's singular costume 92 His throng of visitors 93 Lewis, prince of Würtemberg 95 Gibbon 96 Boswell 98 Corsican affairs 99 The feud at Geneva 102 Rousseau renounces his citizenship 105 The Letters from the Mountain 106 Political side 107 Consequent persecution at Motiers 107 Flight to the isle of St. Peter 108 The fifth of the _Rêveries_ 109 Proscription by the government of Berne 116 Rousseau's singular request 116 His renewed flight 117 Persuaded to seek shelter in England 118 CHAPTER III. THE SOCIAL CONTRACT. Rousseau's reaction against perfectibility 119 Abandonment of the position of the Discourses 121 Doubtful idea of equality 121 The Social Contract, a repudiation of the historic method 124 Yet it has glimpses of relativity 127 Influence of Greek examples 129 And of Geneva 131