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Distinction between the old and the new anchorite [234]
Rousseau's first days at the Hermitage [235]
Rural delirium [237]
Dislike of society [242]
Meditates work on Sensitive Morality [243]
Arranges the papers of the Abbé de Saint Pierre [244]
His remarks on them [246]
Violent mental crisis [247]
First conception of the New Heloïsa [250]
A scene of high morals [254]
Madame d'Houdetot [255]
Erotic mania becomes intensified [256]
Interviews with Madame d'Houdetot [258]
Saint Lambert interposes [262]
Rousseau's letter to Saint Lambert [264]
Its profound falsity [265]
Saint Lambert's reply [267]
Final relations with him and with Madame d'Houdetot [268]
Sources of Rousseau's irritability [270]
Relations with Diderot [273]
With Madame d'Epinay [276]
With Grimm [279]
Grimm's natural want of sympathy with Rousseau [282]
Madame d'Epinay's journey to Geneva [284]
Occasion of Rousseau's breach with Grimm [285]
And with Madame d'Epinay [288]
Leaves the Hermitage [289]

[CHAPTER VIII.]

Music.

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General character of Rousseau's aim in music [291]
As composer [292]
Contest on the comparative merits of French and Italian music [293]
Rousseau's Letter on French Music [293]
His scheme of musical notation [296]
Its chief element [298]
Its practical value [299]
His mistake [300]
Two minor objections [300]

[CHAPTER IX.]

Voltaire And D'Alembert.

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Position of Voltaire [302]
General differences between him and Rousseau [303]
Rousseau not the profounder of the two [305]
But he had a spiritual element [305]
Their early relations [308]
Voltaire's poem on the Earthquake of Lisbon [309]
Rousseau's wonder that he should have written it [310]
His letter to Voltaire upon it [311]
Points to the advantages of the savage state [312]
Reproduces Pope's general position [313]
Not an answer to the position taken by Voltaire [314]
Confesses the question insoluble, but still argues [316]
Curious close of the letter [318]
Their subsequent relations [319]
D'Alembert's article on Geneva [321]
The church and the theatre [322]
Jeremy Collier: Bossuet [323]
Rousseau's contention on stage plays [324]
Rude handling of commonplace [325]
The true answer to Rousseau as to theory of dramatic morality [326]
His arguments relatively to Geneva [327]
Their meaning [328]
Criticism on the Misanthrope [328]
Rousseau's contrast between Paris and an imaginary Geneva [329]
Attack on love as a poetic theme [332]
This letter, the mark of his schism from the party of the philosophers [336]

[CONTENTS] OF VOL. II.