f
bigotry, which has not received its death wound. Women of the first
fashion in France are now ashamed of not nursing their own children;
and stays are universally proscribed from the bodies of the poor
infants, which were for so many ages torture to them, as they are
still in Spain. The country residence may not have effects equally
obvious; but they will be no less sure in the end, and in all respects
beneficial to every class in the state." Arthur Young's _Travels_, i.
72.

[60] _Causeries_, xi. 195.

[61] _Nouv. Hel._, V. iii. "You remember Rousseau's description of an
English morning: such are the mornings I spend with these good
people."--Cowper to Joseph Hill, Oct. 25, 1765. _Works_, iii. 269. In
a letter to William Unwin (Sept. 21, 1779), speaking of his being
engaged in mending windows, he says, "Rousseau would have been charmed
to have seen me so occupied, and would have exclaimed with rapture
that he had found the Emilius who, he supposed, had subsisted only in
his own idea." For a description illustrative of the likeness between
Rousseau and Cowper in their feeling for nature, see letter to Newton
(Sept. 18, 1784, v. 78), and compare it with the description of Les
Charmettes, making proper allowance for the colour of prose.

[62] IV. x. 260.

[63] V. ii. 37.

[64] V. ii. 47-52.

[65] Rousseau considered that the Fourth and Sixth parts of the New
Heloisa were masterpieces of diction. _Conf._ ix. 334.

[66] VI. viii.. 298. _Conf._, xi. 106.

[67] The La Bedoyere case, which began in 1745. See Barbier, iv. 54,
59, etc.

[68] III. xviii. 84.

[69] III. xx. 116. In the letter to Christopher de Beaumont (p. 102),
he fires a double shot against the philosophers on the one hand, and
the church on the other; exalting continence and purity, of which the
philosophers in their reaction against asceticism thought lightly, and
exalting marriage over the celibate state, which the churchmen
associated with mysterious sanctity.

[70] I. lxii.

[71] V. ii.

[72] V. vii. 141.

[73] V. ii. 31-33.

[74] For the Robecq family, see Saint Simon, xviii. 58.

[75] Morellet's _Mem._, i. 89-93. Rousseau, _Conf._, x. 85, etc. This
_Vision_ is also in the style of Grimm's _Petit Prophete_, like the
piece referred to in a previous note, vol. ii. p. 31.

[76] Madame de Vandeul's _Mem. sur Diderot_, p. 27. Rousseau, _Conf._,
vii. 130.

[77] _Nouv. Hel._, V. xiii. 194. _Conf._, x. 43.

[78] The reader will find