SCENE II

Charlotte méditâtes on the sunset^ and her own lofty dreams^ which were also shared by Rousseau,

L 643. comme on se sent vivre / hardly to be rendered in English • might perhaps be translated * what joy to be alive I '

1. 666. yean-Jaques, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is often called Jean- Jacques to distmguish him from Jean-Baptiste Rousseau the lyric poeU He was bom at Geneva 1712 and died at Ermenonville 1778. His ramhYuig and adventurous life is top long a story to be detailed hère.

He was a clerk, a servant, a music-master, a composer, a tutor, by turns. His works were the Scriptures of the more eamest Revolutionary leaders, especially Robespierre. His political philosophy was embodied in his Contrai Social^ his views on éducation in his Emile, His deism was that worship of the Être Suprême which Robespierre decreed. His leading thought was the 'retum to nature»' and the casting aside of the ariifidal conventions of Society.

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