Theresa Le Vasseur.

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Tutorship at Lyons [95]
Goes to Paris in search of fortune [97]
His appearance at this time [98]
Made secretary to the ambassador at Venice [100]
His journey thither and life there [103]
Return to Paris [106]
Theresa Le Vasseur [107]
Character of their union [110]
Rousseau's conduct towards her [113]
Their later estrangements [115]
Rousseau's scanty means [119]
Puts away his five children [120]
His apologies for the crime [122]
Their futility [126]
Attempts to recover the children [128]
Rousseau never married to Theresa [129]
Contrast between outer and inner life [130]

[CHAPTER V.]

The Discourses.

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Local academies in France [132]
Circumstances of the composition of the first Discourse [133]
How far the paradox was original [135]
His visions for thirteen years [136]
Summary of the first Discourse [138]-145
Obligations to Montaigne [145]
And to the Greeks [145]
Semi-Socratic manner [147]
Objections to the Discourse [148]
Ways of stating its positive side [149]
Dangers of exaggerating this positive side [151]
Its excess [152]
Second Discourse [154]
Ideas of the time upon the state of nature [155]
Their influence upon Rousseau [156]
Morelly, as his predecessor [156]
Summary of the second Discourse [159]-170
Criticism of its method [171]
Objection from its want of evidence [172]
Other objections to its account of primitive nature [173]
Takes uniformity of process for granted [176]
In what the importance of the second Discourse consisted [177]
Its protest against the mockery of civilisation [179]
The equality of man, how true, and how false [180]
This doctrine in France, and in America [182]
Rousseau's Discourses, a reaction against the historic method [183]
Mably, and socialism [184]

[CHAPTER VI.]

Paris.

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Influence of Geneva upon Rousseau [187]
Two sides of his temperament [191]
Uncongenial characteristics of Parisian society [191]
His associates [195]
Circumstances of a sudden moral reform [196]
Arising from his violent repugnance for the manners of the time [202]
His assumption of a seeming cynicism [207]
Protests against atheism [209]
The Village Soothsayer at Fontainebleau [212]
Two anedotes of his moral singularity [214]
Revisits Geneva [216]
End of Madame de Warens [217]
Rousseau's re-conversion to Protestantism [220]
The religious opinions then current in Geneva [223]
Turretini and other rationalisers [226]
Effect upon Rousseau [227]
Thinks of taking up his abode in Geneva [227]
Madame d'Epinay offers him the Hermitage [229]
Retires thither against the protests of his friends [231]

[CHAPTER VII.]

The Hermitage.