with me, assuring her I would dedicate the rest of my life, and that of Theresa, to render her happy.  Attached to her pension, from which, although it was regularly paid, she had not for a long time received the least advantage, my offers were lost upon her.  I again gave her a trifling part of the contents of my purse, much less than I ought to have done, and considerably less than I should have offered her had not I been certain of its not being of the least service to herself.  During my residence at Geneva, she made a journey into Chablais, and came to see me at Grange-canal.  She was in want of money to continue her journey:  what I had in my pocket was insufficient to this purpose, but an hour afterwards I sent it her by Theresa.  Poor mamma!  I must relate this proof of the goodness of her heart.  A little diamond ring was the last jewel she had left.  She took it from her finger, to put it upon that of Theresa, who instantly replaced it upon that whence it had been taken, kissing the generous hand which she bathed with her tears.  Ah! this was the proper moment to discharge my debt!  I should have abandoned everything to follow her, and share her fate:  let it be what it would.  I did nothing of the kind.  My attention was engaged by another attachment, and I perceived the attachment I had to her was abated by the slender hopes there were of rendering it useful to either of us.  I sighed after her, my heart was grieved at her situation, but I did not follow her.  Of all the remorse I felt this was the strongest and most lasting.  I merited the terrible chastisement with which I have since that time incessantly been overwhelmed:  may this have expiated my ingratitude!  Of this I appear guilty in my conduct, but my heart has been too much distressed by what I did ever to have been that of an ungrateful man.

Before my departure from Paris I had sketched out the dedication of my discourse on the ‘Inequality of Mankind’.  I finished it at Chambery, and dated it from that place, thinking that, to avoid all chicane, it was better not to date it either from France or Geneva.  The moment I arrived in that city I abandoned myself to the republican enthusiasm which had brought me to it.  This was augmented by the reception I there met with.  Kindly treated by persons of every description, I entirely gave myself up to a patriotic zeal, and mortified at being excluded from the rights of a citizen by the possession of a religion different from that of my forefathers, I resolved openly to return to the latter.  I thought the gospel being the same for every Christian, and the only difference in religious opinions the result of the explanations given by men to that which they did not understand, it was the exclusive right of the sovereign power in every country to fix the mode of worship, and these unintelligible opinions; and that consequently it was the duty of a citizen to admit the one, and conform to the other in the manner