--Locke, on education 202
Difference between him and Rousseau 204
Exhortations to mothers 205
Importance of infantile habits 208
Rousseau's protest against reasoning with children 209
Criticised 209
The opposite theory 210
The idea of property 212
Artificially contrived incidents 214
Rousseau's omission of the principle of authority 215
Connected with his neglect of the faculty of sympathy 219
II.--Rousseau's ideal of living 221
The training that follows from it 222
The duty of knowing a craft 223
Social conception involved in this moral conception 226
III.--Three aims before the instructor 229
Rousseau's omission of training for the social conscience 230
No contemplation of society as a whole 232
Personal interest, the foundation of the morality of Emilius 233
The sphere and definition of the social conscience 235
IV.--The study of history 237
Rousseau's notions upon the subject 239
V.--Ideals of life for women 241
Rousseau's repudiation of his own principles 242
His oriental and obscurantist position 243
Arising from his want of faith in improvement 244
His reactionary tendencies in this region eventually
neutralised 248
VI.--Sum of the merits of Emilius 249
Its influence in France and Germany 251
In England 252
CHAPTER V.
THE SAVOYARD VICAR.
Shallow hopes entertained by the dogmatic atheists 256
The good side of the religious reaction 258
Its preservation of some parts of Christian influence 259
Earlier forms of deism 260
The deism of the Savoyard Vicar 264
The elevation of man, as well as the restoration of a divinity 265
A divinity for fair weather 268
Religious self-denial 269
The Savoyard Vicar's vital omission 270
His position towards Christianity 272
Its effectiveness as a solvent 273
Weakness of the subjective test 276
The Savoyard Vicar's deism not compatible with growing intellectual
conviction 276
The true satisfaction of the religious emotion 277
CHAPTER VI.
ENGLAND.
Rousseau's English portrait 281
His reception in Paris 282
And in London 283
Hume's account of him 284
Settlement at Wootton 286
The quarrel with Hume 287
Detail of the charges against Hume 287-291
Walpole's pretended letter from Frederick 291
Baselessness of the whole delusion 292
Hume's conduct in the quarrel 293
The war of pamphlets 2
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