| At the same time he followed Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau in proposing the social contract as the ultimate test of political legitimacy. |
| The cloth is creased, the day's newspaper is folded neatly, and an unopened letter to Monsieur Ph. Rousseau awaits its reader. |
| Therefore, if Rousseau were interested in spiritualism, during his lifetime it need not have made him an object of ridicule. |
| Horace Walpole had written a squib against him, which Rousseau attributed to Hume. |
| Rousseau was concerned with unity between the author and his work, but not in terms of consistent ideas. |
| Jean Jacques Rousseau expounded the idea that government rested on a social contract. |
