Turretini and other rationalisers 226
Effect upon Rousseau 227
Thinks of taking up his abode in Geneva 227
Madame d’Epinay offers him the Hermitage 229
Retires thither against the protests of his friends 231

CHAPTER VII.

The hermitage.

Distinction between the old and the new anchorite 234
Rousseau’s first days at the Hermitage 235
Rural delirium 237
Dislike of society 242
Meditates work on Sensitive Morality 243
Arranges the papers of the Abbe de Saint Pierre 244
His remarks on them 246
Violent mental crisis 247
First conception of the New Heloisa 250
A scene of high morals 254
Madame d’Houdetot 255
Erotic mania becomes intensified 256
Interviews with Madame d’Houdetot 258
Saint Lambert interposes 262
Rousseau’s letter to Saint Lambert 264
Its profound falsity 265
Saint Lambert’s reply 267
Final relations with him and with Madame d’Houdetot 268
Sources of Rousseau’s irritability 270
Relations with Diderot 273
With Madame d’Epinay 276
With Grimm 279
Grimm’s natural want of sympathy with Rousseau 282
Madame d’Epinay’s journey to Geneva 284
Occasion of Rousseau’s breach with Grimm 285
And with Madame d’Epinay 288
Leaves the Hermitage 289

CHAPTER VIII.

Music.

General character of Rousseau’s aim in music 291
As composer 292
Contest on the comparative merits of French and Italian
    music 293
Rousseau’s Letter on French Music 293
His scheme of musical notation 296
Its chief element 298
Its practical value 299
His mistake 300
Two minor objections 300