his “visions” for thirteen years, i. 138;
  evil effect upon himself of the first Discourse, i. 138;
  of it, the second Discourse and the Social Contract upon Europe,
     i. 138;
  his own opinion of it, i. 138, 139;
  influence of Plato upon him, i. 146;
  second Discourse, i. 154;
  his “State of Nature,” i. 159;
  no evidence for it, i. 172;
  influence of Montesquieu on him, i. 183;
  inconsistency of his views, i. 124;
  influence of Geneva upon him, i. 187, 188;
  his disgust at Parisian philosophers, i. 191, 192;
  the two sides of his character, i. 193;
  associates in Paris, i. 193;
  his income, i. 196, 197, n.;
  post of cashier, i. 196;
  throws it up, i. 197, 198;
  determines to earn his living by copying music, i. 198, 199;
  change of manners, i. 201;
  dislike of the manners of his time, i. 202, 203;
  assumption of a seeming cynicism, i. 206;
  Grimm’s rebuke of it, i. 206;
  Rousseau’s protest against atheism, i. 208, 209;
  composes a musical interlude, the Village Soothsayer, i. 212;
  his nervousness loses him the chance of a pension, i. 213;
  his moral simplicity, i. 214, 215;
  revisits Geneva, i. 216;
  re-conversion to Protestantism, i. 220;
  his friends at Geneva, i. 227;
  their effect upon him, i. 227;
  returns to Paris, i. 227;
  the Hermitage offered him by Madame d’Epinay, i. 229, 230 (and
     ib. n.);
  retires to it against the protests of his friends, i. 231;
  his love of nature, i. 234, 235, 236;
  first days at the Hermitage, i. 237;
  rural delirium, i. 237;
  dislike of society, i. 242;
  literary scheme, i. 242, 243;
  remarks on Saint Pierre, i. 246;
  violent mental crisis, i. 247;
  employs his illness in writing to Voltaire on Providence, i. 250,
     251;
  his intolerance of vice in others, i. 254;
  acquaintance with Madame de Houdetot, i. 255-269;
  source of his irritability, i. 270, 271;
  blind enthusiasm of his admirers, i. 273, also ib. n.;
  quarrels with Diderot, i. 275;
  Grimm’s account of them, i. 276;
  quarrels with Madame d’Epinay, i. 276, 288;
  relations with Grimm, i. 279;
  want of sympathy between the two, i. 279;
  declines to accompany Madame d’Epinay to Geneva, i. 285;
  quarrels with Grimm, i. 285;
  leaves the Hermitage, i. 289, 290;
  aims in music, i. 291;
  letter on French music, i. 293, 294;
  writes on music in the Encyclopaedia, i. 296;
  his Musical Dictionary, i. 296;
  scheme and principles of his new musical notation, i. 269;
  explained, i. 298, 299;
  its practical value, i. 299;
  his mistake, i. 300;
  minor objections, i. 300;
  his temperament and Genevan spirit, i. 303;
  compared with Voltaire, i. 304, 305;
  had a more spiritual element than Voltaire, i. 306;
  its influence in France, i. 307;