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e 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. Theresa (see Le Vasseur). Thought, school of, division between rationalists and emotionalists, i. 337. Tonic Sol-fa notation, close correspondence of the, to Rousseau's system, i. 299. Tronchin on Voltaire, i. 319, _n._, 321. Turgot, i. 89; his discourses at the Sorbonne in 1750, i. 155; the one sane eminent Frenchman of eighteenth century, i. 202; his unselfish toil, i. 233; ii. 193; mentioned, ii. 246, 294. Turin, Rousseau at, i. 34-43; leaves it, i. 45; tries to learn Latin at, i. 91. Turretini and other rationalisers, i. 226; his works, i. 226, _n._ UNIVERSE, constitution of, discussion on, i. 311-317. VAGABOND life, Rousseau's love of, i. 63, 68. Val de Travers, ii. 77; Rousseau's life in, ii. 91-95. Vasseur, Theresa Le, Rousseau's first acquaintance with, i. 106, 107, also _ib._ _n._; their life together, i. 110-113; well befriended, ii. 80, _n._; her evil character, ii. 326. Vauvenargues on emotional instinct, ii. 34. Venice, Rousseau at, i. 100-106. Vercellis, Madame de, Rousseau servant to, i. 39. Verdelin, Madame de, her kindness to Theresa, ii. 80, _n._; to Rousseau, ii. 118, _n._ Village Soothsayer, the (_Devin du Village_), composed at Passy, performed at Fontainebleau and Paris, i. 212; marked a revolution in French Music, i. 291. Voltaire, i. 2, 21, 63; effect on Rousseau of his Letters on the English, i. 86; spreads a derogatory report about Rousseau, i. 101, _n._; his "Princesse de Navarre," i. 119; criticism on Rousseau's first Discourse, i. 147; effect on his work of his common sense, i. 155; avoids the society of Paris, i. 202; his conversion to Romanism, i. 220, 221; strictures on Homer and Shakespeare, i. 280; his position in the eighteenth century, i. 301; general difference between, and Rousseau, i. 301; clung to the rationalistic school of his day, i. 305; on Rousseau's second Discourse, i. 308; his poem on the earthquake of Lisbon, i. 309, 310; his sympathy with suffering, i. 311, 312; entreated by Rousseau to draw up a civil profession of religious faith, i. 317; denounced by Rousseau as a "trumpet of impiety," i. 317, 320,
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