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_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 HELOSA.
Conditions preceding the composition of the New Helosa 1
The Duke and d.u.c.h.ess of Luxembourg 2
Rousseau and his patrician acquaintances 4
Peaceful life at Montmorency 9
Equivocal prudence occasionally shown by Rousseau 12
His want of grat.i.tude for commonplace service 13
Bad health, and thoughts of suicide 16
Episode of Madame Latour de Franqueville 17
Relation of the New Helosa 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 princ.i.p.al actors 28, 29
Popularity of the New Helosa 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
Circ.u.mstances of the publication of the New Helosa 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
