Rousseau Part 16

_Printed by_ R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED, _Edinburgh_

ROUSSEAU

BY

JOHN MORLEY

VOL. II.

London MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1905

_All rights reserved_

_First printed in this form 1886_ _Reprinted 1888, 1891, 1896, 1900, 1905_

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

CHAPTER I.

MONTMORENCY--THE NEW HELOSA.

Conditions preceding the composition of the New Helosa 1

The Duke and d.u.c.h.ess of Luxembourg 2

Rousseau and his patrician acquaintances 4

Peaceful life at Montmorency 9

Equivocal prudence occasionally shown by Rousseau 12

His want of grat.i.tude for commonplace service 13

Bad health, and thoughts of suicide 16

Episode of Madame Latour de Franqueville 17

Relation of the New Helosa to Rousseau's general doctrine 20

Action of the first part of the story 25

Contrasted with contemporary literature 25

And with contemporary manners 27

Criticism of the language and princ.i.p.al actors 28, 29

Popularity of the New Helosa 31

Its reactionary intellectual direction 33

Action of the second part 35, 36

Its influence on Goethe and others 38

Distinction between Rousseau and his school 40

Singular pictures of domesticity 42

Sumptuary details 44

The slowness of movement in the work justified 46

Exaltation of marriage 47

Equalitarian tendencies 49

Not inconsistent with social quietism 51

Compensation in the political consequences of the triumph of sentiment 54

Circ.u.mstances of the publication of the New Helosa 55

Nature of the trade in books 57

Malesherbes and the printing of Emilius 61

Rousseau's suspicions 62

The great struggle of the moment 64

Proscription of Emilius 67

Flight of the author 67