Rousseau's celebrated Essay on the proposed Question, "Whether
the Progress of the Arts and Sciences had tended to corrupt or
ameliorate the condition of Men"
He renounces the Appointment of Cashier to a Farmer-general
of the Taxes
Copies Music for a Subsistence
Ætat. 38. Great Success of his "Devin du Village," an Opera
1750.
His Essay on "The Origin of Inequality among Men"