Its history in the sixteenth century [146]
Hooker and Grotius [148]
Locke [149]
Hobbes [151]
Central propositions of the Social Contract—
1. Origin of society in compact [154]
Different conception held by the Physiocrats [156]
2. Sovereignty of the body thus constituted [158]
Difference from Hobbes and Locke [159]
The root of socialism [160]
Republican phraseology [161]
3. Attributes of sovereignty [162]
4. The law-making power [163]
A contemporary illustration [164]
Hints of confederation [166]
5. Forms of government [168]
Criticism on the common division [169]
Rousseau's preference for elective aristocracy [172]
6. Attitude of the state to religion [173]
Rousseau's view, the climax of a reaction [176]
Its effect at the French Revolution [179]
Its futility [180]
Another method of approaching the philosophy of government—
Origin of society not a compact [183]
The true reason of the submission of a minority to a majority [184]
Rousseau fails to touch actual problems [186]
The doctrine of resistance, for instance [188]
Historical illustrations [190]
Historical effect of the Social Contract in France and Germany [193]
Socialist deductions from it [194]
[CHAPTER IV.]
Emilius.
Rousseau touched by the enthusiasm of his time [197]
Contemporary excitement as to education, part of the revival of naturalism [199]
I.—Locke, on education [202]
Difference between him and Rousseau [204]
Exhortations to mothers [205]
Importance of infantile habits [208]
Rousseau's protest against reasoning with children [209]
Criticised [209]
The opposite theory [210]
The idea of property [212]
Artificially contrived incidents [214]
Rousseau's omission of the principle of authority [215]
Connected with his neglect of the faculty of sympathy [219]
II.—Rousseau's ideal of living [221]
The training that follows from it [222]
The duty of knowing a craft [223]
Social conception involved in this moral conception [226]
III.—Three aims before the instructor [229]
Rousseau's omission of training for the social conscience [230]
No contemplation of society as a whole [232]
Personal interest, the foundation of the morality of Emilius [233]
The sphere and definition of the social conscience [235]
IV.—The study of history [237]
Rousseau's notions upon the subject [239]
V.—Ideals of life for women [241]
Rousseau's repudiation of his own principles [242]
His oriental and obscurantist position [243]
Arising from his want of faith in improvement [244]
His reactionary tendencies in this region eventually neutralised [248]
VI.—Sum of the merits of Emilius [249]
Its influence in France and Germany [251]
In England [252]