[82] Ibid., 179-180.

[83] Avenir de la Science, 476.

[84] Madame de Warens felt the influence of German pietism in her youth. See La Jeunesse de J.-J. Rousseau par E. Ritter; ch. XIII.

[85] Lettre à M. Molé (21 October, 1803).

[86] Le romantisme français, 215.

[87] See Les Amours de Milord Bomston at the end of La Nouvelle Héloïse.

[88] Sultan Mourad in La Légende des Siècles.

[89] Correspondence, III, 213 (June, 1791). The date of this letter should be noted. Several of the worst terrorists of the French Revolution began by introducing bills for the abolition of capital punishment.

[90] See Burton’s Hume, II, 309 (note 2).

This sentimental trait did not escape the authors of the Anti-Jacobin: