[Footnote 4139: "Confessions," part 2. book XI. "The women were intoxicated with the book and with the author to such an extent that there were few of them, even of high rank, whose conquest I could not have made if I had undertaken it. I possess evidence of this which I do not care, to publish, and which, without having been obliged to prove it by experience, warrant, my statement." Cf. G. Sand, "Histoire de ma vie," I.73.] [Footnote 4140: See an engraving by Moreau called "Les Petits Parrains."--Berquin, passim., and among others "L'épée."--Remark the ready-made phrases, the style of an author common to children, in Berquin and Madame de Genlis.] [Footnote 4141: See the description of sunrise in "Émile," of the Élysée (a natural garden), in "Héloise." And especially in "Emile," at the end of the fourth book, the pleasures which Rousseau would enjoy if he were rich.] [Footnote 4142: See in Marivaux, ("La double inconstance,") a satire on the court, courtiers and the corruptions of high life, opposed to the common people in the country.] [Footnote 4143: Bachmaumont, I. 254.] [Footnote 4144: "A calculator was required for the place but a dancer got it."--"The sale of offices is a great abuse."--"Yes, it would he better to give them for nothing."--"Only small men fear small literature."--"Chance makes the interval, the mind only can alter that!"--"A courtier?--they say it is a very difficult profession."--"To receive, to take, and to ask, is the secret in three words," etc,--Also the entire monologue by Figaro, and all the scenes with Bridoisin.] CHAPTER II. THE FRENCH PUBLIC. I. The Nobility. The Aristocracy.--Novelty commonly repugnant to it.-- Conditions of this repugnance.--Example in England. This public has yet to be made willing to be convinced and to be won over; belief occurs only when there is a disposition to believe, and, in the success of books, its share is often greater than that of their authors. On addressing men about politics or religion their opinions are, in general already formed; their prejudices, their interests, their situation have confirmed them beforehand; they listen to you only after you have uttered aloud what they inwardly think. Propose to them to demolish the great social edifice and to rebuild it anew on a quite an opposite plan: ordinarily you auditors will consist only of those who are poorly lodged or shelterless, who live in garrets or cellars, or who sleep under the stars, on the bare ground in the vicinity of houses. The common run of people, whose lodgings are small but tolerable, dread moving and adhere to their accustomed ways. The difficulty becomes much greater on appealing to the upper classes who occupy superior habitations; their acceptance of your proposal depends either on their great delusions or on their great disinterestedness. In England they quickly foresee the danger.