Excerpt from Rousseau, Vol. 2 The period of actual production was externally calm. The New Helmsa was completed in 1759, and published in 1761 The Social Contract was published in the spring of 1762, and Emilius a few weeks later. Throughout this period Rousseau was, for the last time in his life, at peace with most of his fellows that is to say, though he never relented from his antipathy to the Holbachians, for the time it slum bered, until a more real and serious persecution than any which he imputed to them, transformed his anti pathy into a gloomy frenzy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.