depose princes, ii. 146;
Social Contract idea of government, probably derived from Locke,
ii. 150;
falseness of it, ii. 153, 154;
origin of society, ii. 154;
ill effects on Rousseau’s political speculation, ii. 155;
what constitutes the sovereignty, ii. 158;
Rousseau’s Social Contract different from that of Hobbes, ii. 159;
Locke’s indefiniteness on, ii. 160;
attributes of sovereignty, ii. 163;
confederation, ii. 164, 165;
his distinction between tyrant and despot, ii. 169,
n.;
distinguishes constitution of the state from that of the government,
ii. 170;
scheme of an elective aristocracy, ii. 172;
similarity to the English form of government, ii. 173;
the state in respect to religion, ii. 173;
habitually illogical form of his statements, ii. 173, 174;
duty of sovereign to establish civil profession of faith, ii. 175,
176;
infringement of it to be punished, even by death, ii. 176;
Rousseau’s Hobbism, ii. 177;
denial of his social compact theory, ii. 183, 184;
futility of his disquisitions on, ii. 185, 186;
his declaration of general duty of rebellion (arising out of the
universal breach of social compact) considered, ii. 188;
it makes government impossible, ii. 188;
he urges that usurped authority is another valid reason for
rebellion, ii. 190;
practical evils of this, ii. 192;
historical effect of the Social Contract, ii. 192-195.
Social quietism of some parts of New Heloisa, ii. 49.
Socialism: Morelly, and De Mably, ii. 52;
what it is, ii. 159.
Socialistic theory of Morelly, i. 158, 159 (also i. 158, n.)
Society, Aristotle on, i. 174;
D’Alembert’s statements on,
i. 174, n.;
Parisian, Rousseau on, i. 209;
dislike of, i. 242;
Rousseau’s origin of, ii. 153;
true grounds of, ii. 155, 156.
Socrates, i. 131, 140, 232; ii. 72, 273.
Solitude, eighteenth century notions of, i. 231, 232.
Solon, ii. 133.
Sorbonne, the, condemns Emilius, ii. 82.
Spectator, the, Rousseau’s liking for, i. 86.
Spinoza, dangerous speculations of, i. 143.
Stael, Madame de, i. 217, n.
Stage players, how treated in France, i. 322.
Stage plays (see Plays).
State of Nature, Rousseau’s, i. 159, 160;
Hobbes on, i. 161 (see Nature).
Suicide, Rousseau on, ii. 16;
a mistake to pronounce him incapable of,
ii. 19.
Switzerland, i. 330.
TACITUS, i. 177.
Theatre, Rousseau’s letter, objecting to the,
i. 133;
his error in the matter, i. 134.
Theology, metaphysical, Descartes’ influence on, i. 226.