Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 654 pages of information about Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2).

Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 654 pages of information about Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2).
  draws up his Considerations on the Government of Poland, ii. 324;
  estimate of the Spanish, ii. 324;
  his poverty, ii. 325;
  accepts a home at Ermenonville from M. Girardin, ii. 326;
  his painful condition, ii. 326;
  sudden death, ii. 326;
  cause of it unknown, ii. 326 (see also ib. n.);
  his interment, ii. 326;
  finally removed to Paris, ii. 328.

SAINTE BEUVE on Rousseau and Madame d’Epinay, i. 279, n.;
  on Rousseau, ii. 40.

Saint Germain, M. de, Rousseau’s letter to, i. 123.

Saint Just, ii. 132, 133;
  his political regulations, ii. 133, n.;
  base of his system, ii. 136;
  against the atheists, ii. 179.

Saint Lambert, i. 244;
  offers Rousseau a home in Lorraine, ii. 117.

Saint Pierre, Abbe de, Rousseau arranges papers of, i. 244;
  his views concerning reason, ib.;
  boldness of his observations, i. 245.

Saint Pierre, Bernardin de, account of his visit to Rousseau at
     Paris, ii. 317-321.

Sand, Madame G., i. 81, n.;
  Savoy landscape, i. 99, n.;
  ancestry of, i. 121, n.

Savages, code of morals of, i. 178-179, n.

Savage state, advantages of, Rousseau’s letter to Voltaire, i. 312.

Savoy, priests of, proselytisers, i. 30, 31, 33 (also ib. n.)

Savoyard Vicar, the, origin of character of, ii. 257-280 (see
     Emilius).

Schiller on Rousseau, ii. 192 (also ib. n.);
  Rousseau’s influence on, ii. 315.

Servetus, ii. 180.

Simplification, the revolutionary process and ideal of, i. 4;
  in reference to Rousseau’s music, i. 291.

Social conscience, theory and definition of, ii. 234, 235;
  the great agent in fostering, ii. 237.

Social Contract, the, ill effect of, on Europe, i. 138;
  beginning of its composition, i. 177;
  ideas of, i. 188;
  its harmful dreams, i. 246;
  influence of, ii. 1;
  price of, and difficulties in publishing, ii. 59;
  ordered to be burnt at Geneva, ii. 72, 73, 104;
  detailed criticism of, ii. 119-196;
  Rousseau diametrically opposed to the dominant belief of his day
     in human perfectibility, ii. 119;
  object of the work, ii. 120;
  main position of the two Discourses given up in it, ii. 120;
  influenced by Locke, ii. 120;
  its uncritical, illogical principles, ii. 123, 124;
  its impracticableness, ii. 128;
  nature of his illustrations, ii. 128-133;
  the “gospel of the Jacobins,” ii. 132, 133;
  the desperate absurdity of its assumptions gave it power in the
     circumstances of the times, ii. 135-141;
  some of its maxims very convenient for ruling Jacobins, ii. 142;
  its central conception, the sovereignty of peoples, ii. 144;
  Rousseau not its inventor, ii. 144, 145;

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