VI.--Sum of the merits of Emilius 249
Its influence in France and Germany 251
In England 252
CHAPTER V.
THE SAVOYARD VICAR.
Shallow hopes entertained by the dogmatic atheists 256
The good side of the religious reaction 258
Its preservation of some parts of Christian influence 259
Earlier forms of deism 260
The deism of the Savoyard Vicar 264
The elevation of man, as well as the restoration of a divinity 265
A divinity for fair weather 268
Religious self-denial 269
The Savoyard Vicar's vital omission 270
His position towards Christianity 272
Its effectiveness as a solvent 273
Weakness of the subjective test 276
The Savoyard Vicar's deism not compatible with growing intellectual
conviction 276
The true satisfaction of the religious emotion 277
CHAPTER VI.
ENGLAND.
Rousseau's English portrait 281
His reception in Paris 282
And in London 283
Hume's account of him 284
Settlement at Wootton 286
The quarrel with Hume 287
Detail of the charges against Hume 287-291
Walpole's pretended letter from Frederick 291
Baselessness of the whole delusion 292
Hume's conduct in the quarrel 293
The war of pamphlets 295
Common theory of Rousseau's madness 296
Preparatory conditions 297
Extension of disorder from the affective life to the intelligence 299
The Confessions 301
His life at Wootton 306
Flight from Derbyshire 306
And from England 308
CHAPTER VII.
THE END.
The elder Mirabeau 309
Shelters Rousseau at Fleury 311
Rousseau at Trye 312
In Dauphiny 314
Return to Paris 314
The _Rêveries_ 315
Life in Paris 316
Bernardin de St. Pierre's account of him 317
An Easter excursion 320
Rousseau's unsociality 322
Poland and Spain 324
Withdrawal to Ermenonville 326
His death 326
ROUSSEAU.
CHAPTER I.
MONTMORENCY--THE NEW HELOÏSA.
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