estimate of the Spanish, ii. 324;
his poverty, ii. 325;
accepts a home at Ermenonville from M. Girardin, ii. 326;
his painful condition, ii. 326;
sudden death, ii. 326;
cause of it unknown, ii. 326 (see also ib. n.);
his interment, ii. 326;
finally removed to Paris, ii. 328.
SAINTE BEUVE on Rousseau and Madame d’Epinay,
i. 279, n.;
on Rousseau, ii. 40.
Saint Germain, M. de, Rousseau’s letter to, i. 123.
Saint Just, ii. 132, 133;
his political regulations, ii. 133, n.;
base of his system, ii. 136;
against the atheists, ii. 179.
Saint Lambert, i. 244;
offers Rousseau a home in Lorraine, ii.
117.
Saint Pierre, Abbe de, Rousseau arranges papers of,
i. 244;
his views concerning reason, ib.;
boldness of his observations, i. 245.
Saint Pierre, Bernardin de, account of his visit to
Rousseau at
Paris, ii. 317-321.
Sand, Madame G., i. 81, n.;
Savoy landscape, i. 99, n.;
ancestry of, i. 121, n.
Savages, code of morals of, i. 178-179, n.
Savage state, advantages of, Rousseau’s letter to Voltaire, i. 312.
Savoy, priests of, proselytisers, i. 30, 31, 33 (also ib. n.)
Savoyard Vicar, the, origin of character of, ii. 257-280
(see
Emilius).
Schiller on Rousseau, ii. 192 (also ib. n.);
Rousseau’s influence on, ii. 315.
Servetus, ii. 180.
Simplification, the revolutionary process and ideal
of, i. 4;
in reference to Rousseau’s music,
i. 291.
Social conscience, theory and definition of, ii. 234,
235;
the great agent in fostering, ii. 237.
Social Contract, the, ill effect of, on Europe, i.
138;
beginning of its composition, i. 177;
ideas of, i. 188;
its harmful dreams, i. 246;
influence of, ii. 1;
price of, and difficulties in publishing,
ii. 59;
ordered to be burnt at Geneva, ii. 72,
73, 104;
detailed criticism of, ii. 119-196;
Rousseau diametrically opposed to the
dominant belief of his day
in human perfectibility,
ii. 119;
object of the work, ii. 120;
main position of the two Discourses given
up in it, ii. 120;
influenced by Locke, ii. 120;
its uncritical, illogical principles,
ii. 123, 124;
its impracticableness, ii. 128;
nature of his illustrations, ii. 128-133;
the “gospel of the Jacobins,”
ii. 132, 133;
the desperate absurdity of its assumptions
gave it power in the
circumstances of the
times, ii. 135-141;
some of its maxims very convenient for
ruling Jacobins, ii. 142;
its central conception, the sovereignty
of peoples, ii. 144;
Rousseau not its inventor, ii. 144, 145;