Man, his specific distinction from other animals,
i. 161;
his state of nature, i. 161;
Hobbes wrong concerning this, i. 161;
equality of, i. 180;
effects of this doctrine in France and
in the United States, i.
182;
not naturally free, ii. 126.
Mandeville, i. 162.
Manners, Rousseau’s, Marmontel, and Grimm on,
i. 205, 206;
Rousseau on Swiss, i. 329, 330;
depravity of French, in the eighteenth
century, ii. 25, 26.
Marischal, Lord, friendship between, and Rousseau,
ii. 79-81;
account of, ii. 80;
on Boswell, ii. 98
Marmontel, on Rousseau’s manners, i. 206;
on his success, ii. 2.
Marriage, design of the New Heloisa to exalt, ii.
46-48, ib.
n.
Marsilio, of Padua, on Law, ii. 145.
Men, inequality of, Rousseau’s second Discourse
(see Discourses),
dedicated to the republic
of Geneva, i. 190;
how received there, i. 228.
Mirabeau the elder, Rousseau’s letter to, from
Wootton, ii. 305, 306;
his character, ii. 309-312;
receives Rousseau at Fleury, ii. 311.
Mirabeau, Gabriel, Rousseau’s influence on, ii. 315.
Moliere (Misanthrope of), Rousseau’s criticism
on, i. 329;
D’Alembert on, i. 329.
Monarchy, Rousseau’s objection to, ii. 171.
Montaigu, Count de, avarice of, i. 101, 102.
Montaigne, Rousseau’s obligations to, i. 145;
influence of, on Rousseau, ii. 203.
Montesquieu, “incomplete positivity” of,
i. 156;
on Government, i. 157;
effect of his Spirit of Laws on Rousseau,
i. 183;
confused definition of laws, ii. 153;
balanced parliamentary system of, ii.
163;
his definition of forms of government,
ii. 169.
Montmorency, Rousseau goes to live there, i. 229;
his life at, ii. 2-9.
Montpellier, i. 92.
Morals, state of, in France in the eighteenth century, ii. 26.
Morellet, thrown into the Bastile, ii. 57.
Morelly, his indirect influence on Rousseau, i. 156;
his socialistic theory, i. 157, 158;
his rules for organising a model community,
i. 158, n.;
his terse exposition of inequality contrasted
with that of Rousseau,
i. 170;
on primitive human nature, i. 175;
his socialism, ii. 52;
influence of his “model community”
upon St. Just, ii. 133,
n.;
advice to mothers, ii. 205.
Motiers, Rousseau’s home there, ii. 77;
attends divine service at, ii. 91;
life at, ii. 91, 93.
Moultou (pastor of Motiers), his enthusiasm for Rousseau, ii. 82.
Music, Rousseau undertakes to teach, i. 60;
Rousseau’s opinion concerning Italian,
i. 105;
effect of Galuppi’s, i. 105;
Rousseau earns his living by copying,
i. 196; ii. 315;
Rameau’s criticism on Rousseau’s
Muses Galantes, i. 211;
French, i. 291;
Rousseau’s letter on, i. 292;
Italian, denounced at Paris, i. 292;
Rousseau utterly condemns French, i. 294;
quarrels with Gluck for setting his, to
French words, ii. 323.