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Title: Diderot and the Encyclopaedists
Volume II.

Author: John Morley

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DIDEROT AND THE ENCYCLOPAEDISTS

BY

JOHN MORLEY

VOL. II.

London

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED

NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1905

_First published elsewhere_

_New Edition 1886. Reprinted 1891, 1897, 1905_

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

PAGE

CHAPTER I.

OTHER DIALOGUES.

(1) _The Conversations of a Father with his Children_ 1
Remarks upon it.
(2) _The Inconsistency of Public Judgment on Private Actions_ 8
Observations.
(3) _Supplement to Bougainville's Travels_ 14
Philosophical qualities of the discussion not satisfactory 19
Nothing gained by his criticism on marriage 21

CHAPTER II.

ROMANCE.

Digression inevitable in dealing with Diderot 24
Richardson's influence in Europe 26
Diderot's _Eloge_ upon him 28
Rousseau and Richardson 29
Diderot writes _The Nun_ (1796) 31
Circumstances of its composition 32
Its intention 33
And characteristics 35
Sterne 36
Diderot writes _Jacques le Fataliste_ 37
Its history 38
Goethe's criticism on it 38
Nature of Diderot's imitation of Richardson and Sterne 40
No true