Isle of St. Peter Sept., 1765
Strasburg Nov., "
Paris December, "
Arrives in England Jan. 13, 1766
Leaves Dover May 22, 1767
Fleury June, "
Trye July, "
Dauphiny Aug., 1768
Paris June, 1770
Death July 2, 1778

PRINCIPAL WRITINGS.

Discourse on the Influence of Learning and
    Art PUBLISHED 1750
Discourse on Inequality " 1754
Letter to D’Alembert " 1758
New Heloisa (began 1757, finished in winter
    of 1759-60) " 1761
Social Contract " 1762
Emilius " 1762
Letters from the Mountain " 1764
Confessions (written 1766-70) { Pt.  I 1781
                                                  { Pt.  II 1788
Reveries (written 1777-78).

Comme dans les etangs assoupis sous les bois,
Dans plus d’une ame on voit deux choses a la fois: 
Le ciel, qui teint les eaux a peine remuees
Avec tous ses rayons et toutes ses nuees;
Et la vase, fond morne, affreux, sombre et dormant,
Ou des reptiles noirs fourmillent vaguement.

          
                                                                              HUGO.

ROUSSEAU.

CHAPTER I.

PRELIMINARY.

Christianity is the name for a great variety of changes which took place during the first centuries of our era, in men’s ways of thinking and feeling about their spiritual relations to unseen powers, about their moral relations to one another, about the basis and type of social union.  So the Revolution is now the accepted name for a set of changes which began faintly to take a definite practical shape first in America, and then in France, towards the end of the eighteenth century; they had been directly prepared by a small number of energetic thinkers, whose speculations represented, as always, the prolongation of some old lines of thought in obedience to the impulse of new social and intellectual conditions.  While one movement supplied the energy and the principles which extricated civilisation from the ruins of the Roman empire, the other supplies the energy and the principles which already once, between the Seven Years’