[337] Corr., i. 289-316.  Aug. 18, 1756.

[338] Joseph De Maistre put all this much more acutely; Soirees, iv.

[339] Madame d’Epinay, Mem., i. 380.

[340] Conf., ix. 277.  Also Corr., iii. 326.  March 11, 1764.  Tronchin’s long letter, to which Rousseau refers in this passage, is given in M. Streckeisen-Moultou’s collection, i. 323, and is interesting to people who care to know how Voltaire looked to a doctor who saw him closely.

[341] Corr., ii. 132.  June 17, 1760.  Also Conf., x. 91.

[342] Some other interesting references to Voltaire in Rousseau’s letters are—­ii. 170 (Nov. 29, 1760), denouncing Voltaire as “that trumpet of impiety, that fine genius, and that low soul,” and so forth; iii. 29 (Oct. 30, 1762), accusing Voltaire of malicious intrigues against him in Switzerland; iii. 168 (Mar. 21, 1763), that if there is to be any reconciliation, Voltaire must make first advances; iii. 280 (Dec., 1763), described a trick played by Voltaire; iv. 40 (Jan. 31, 1765) 64; Corr., v. 74 (Jan. 5, 1767), replying to Voltaire’s calumnious account of his early life; note on this subject giving Voltaire the lie direct, iv. 150 (May 31, 1765); the Lettre a D’Almbert, p. 193, etc.

[343] Bernardin St. Pierre, xii. 96.  In the same sense, in Dusaulx, Mes Rapports avec J.J.R., (Paris:  1798), p. 101.  See also Corr., iv. 254.  Dec. 30, 1765.  And again, iv. 276, Feb. 28, 1766, and p. 356.

[344] Dusaulx, p. 102.

[345] This part of D’Alembert’s article is reproduced in Rousseau’s preface, and the whole is given at the end of the volume in M. Auguis’s edition, p. 409.

[346] Goncourt, Femme au 18ieme siecle, p. 256.  Grimm, Corr.  Lit., vi. 248.

[347] Maximes sur la Comedie, Sec.15, etc.  They were written in reply to a plea for Comedy by Caffaro, a Jesuit father.

[348] The letter may be conveniently divided into three parts:  I. pp. 1-89, II. pp. 90-145, III. pp. 146 to the end.  Of course if Rousseau in saying that tragedy leads to pity through terror, was thinking of the famous passage in the sixth chapter of Aristotle’s Poetics, he was guilty of a shocking mistranslation.

[349] Some of the arguments seem drawn from Plato; see, besides the well-known passages in the Republic, the Laws, iv. 719, and still more directly, Gorgias, 502.

[350] Yet D’Alembert in his very cool and sensible reply (p. 245) repeats the old saws, as that in Catilina we learn the lesson of the harm which may be done to the human race by the abuse of great talents, and so forth.

[351] Lettre a M. J.J.  Rousseau, p. 258.

[352] D’Alembert’s Lettre a J.J.  Rousseau, p. 277.  Rousseau has a passage to the same effect, that false people are always sober, in the Nouv.  Hel., Pt.  I. xxiii. 123.