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What is not easy to believe, and is none the less true for all that, is that M.Rousseau was afraid of being banished for this pamphlet.

It would have been odd to see Rousseau banished for having spoken ill of French music, after having with impunity dealt with the most delicate political matter." Rousseau had just printed his _Discours sur l'Inegalite des conditions,_ a new and violent picture of the corruptions of human society.
"Inequality being almost nil in a state of nature," he says, "it derives its force and increment from the development of our faculties and from the progress of the human mind.

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