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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 Neuchatel 90
Rousseau's singular costume 92
His throng of visitors 93
Lewis, prince of Wurtemberg 95
Gibbon 96
Boswell 98
Corsican affairs 99
The feud at Geneva 102
Rousseau renounces his citizens.h.i.+p 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 _Reveries_ 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
Impression upon Robespierre and Saint Just 132
Rousseau's scheme implied a small territory 135
Why the Social Contract made fanatics 137
Verbal quality of its propositions 138
The doctrine of public safety 143
The doctrine of the sovereignty of peoples 144
Its early phases 144
Its history in the sixteenth century 146
Hooker and Grotius 148
Locke 149
Hobbes 151
