Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)

by John Morley

[160] Rép. au Roi de Pologne, p. 111 and p. 113.

[161] Rép. à M. Bordes, 138.

[162] Ib. 137.

[163] "The first source of the evil is inequality; from inequality come riches ... from riches are born luxury and idleness; from luxury come the fine arts, and from idleness the sciences." Rép. au Roi de Pologne, 120, 121.

[164] Rép. à M. Bordes, 147. In the same spirit he once wrote the more wholesome maxim, "We should argue with the wise, and never with the public." Corr., i. 191.

[165] Rép. au Roi de Pologne, 128, 129.

[166] Rép. à M. Bordes, 150-161.

[167] P. 174.

[168] Egger's Hellénisme en France, 28ième leçon, p. 265.

[169] Voltaire to J.J.R. Aug. 30, 1755.