Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe
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- PROTESTANTISM AND CATHOLICITY COMPARED IN THEIR EFFECTS ON THE CIVILIZATION OF EUROPE.
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE.
- PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION.
- NOTICE OF THE AUTHOR.
- TABLE OF CONTENTS.
- TABLE OF NOTES.
- CHAPTER I. NAME AND NATURE OF PROTESTANTISM.
- CHAPTER II. CAUSES OF PROTESTANTISM.
- CHAPTER III. EXTRAORDINARY PHENOMENON IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.
- CHAPTER IV. PROTESTANTISM AND THE MIND.
- CHAPTER V. INSTINCT OF FAITH IN THE SCIENCES.
- CHAPTER VI. DIFFERENCES IN THE RELIGIOUS WANTS OF NATIONS—MATHEMATICS—MORAL SCIENCES.
- CHAPTER VII. INDIFFERENCE AND FANATICISM.
- CHAPTER VIII. FANATICISM—ITS DEFINITION.—FANATICISM IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.
- CHAPTER IX. INFIDELITY AND INDIFFERENCE IN EUROPE, THE FRUITS OF PROTESTANTISM.
- CHAPTER X. CAUSES OF THE CONTINUANCE OF PROTESTANTISM.
- CHAPTER XI. THE POSITIVE DOCTRINES OF PROTESTANTISM REPUGNANT TO THE INSTINCT OF CIVILIZATION.
- CHAPTER XII. THE EFFECTS WHICH THE INTRODUCTION OF PROTESTANTISM INTO SPAIN WOULD HAVE PRODUCED.
- CHAPTER XIII. CATHOLICITY AND PROTESTANTISM IN RELATION TO SOCIAL PROGRESS. PRELIMINARY COUP D'ŒIL.
- CHAPTER XIV. DID THERE EXIST AT THE EPOCH WHEN CHRISTIANITY APPEARED ANY OTHER PRINCIPLE OF REGENERATION?
- CHAPTER XV. DIFFICULTIES WHICH CHRISTIANITY HAD TO OVERCOME IN THE WORK OF SOCIAL REGENERATION.—OF SLAVERY.—COULD IT BE DESTROYED WITH MORE PROMPTNESS THAN IT WAS BY CHRISTIANITY?
- CHAPTER XVI. IDEAS AND MANNERS OF ANTIQUITY WITH RESPECT TO SLAVERY.—THE CHURCH BEGINS BY IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF SLAVES.
- CHAPTER XVII. MEANS EMPLOYED BY THE CHURCH TO ENFRANCHISE SLAVES.
- CHAPTER XVIII. CONTINUATION OF THE SAME SUBJECT.
- CHAPTER XIX. DOCTRINES OF S. AUGUSTINE AND S. THOMAS AQUINAS ON THE SUBJECT OF SLAVERY.—RÉSUMÉ OF THE SUBJECT.
- CHAPTER XX. CONTRAST BETWEEN TWO ORDERS OF CIVILIZATION.
- CHAPTER XXI. OF THE INDIVIDUAL—OF THE FEELING OF INDIVIDUAL INDEPENDENCE ACCORDING TO M. GUIZOT.
- CHAPTER XXII. HOW THE INDIVIDUAL WAS ABSORBED BY ANCIENT SOCIETY.
- CHAPTER XXIII. THE PROGRESS OF INDIVIDUALITY UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF CATHOLICITY.
- CHAPTER XXIV. OF THE FAMILY.—MONOGAMY.—INDISSOLUBILITY OF THE CONJUGAL TIE.
- CHAPTER XXV. OF THE PASSION OF LOVE.
- CHAPTER XXVI. VIRGINITY IN ITS SOCIAL ASPECT.
- CHAPTER XXVII. OF CHIVALRY AND BARBARIAN MANNERS, IN THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE CONDITION OF WOMEN.
- CHAPTER XXVIII. OF THE PUBLIC CONSCIENCE IN GENERAL.
- CHAPTER XXIX. OF THE PRINCIPLE OF PUBLIC CONSCIENCE ACCORDING TO MONTESQUIEU—HONOR—VIRTUE.
- CHAPTER XXX. ON THE DIFFERENT INFLUENCE OF PROTESTANTISM AND CATHOLICITY ON THE PUBLIC CONSCIENCE.
- CHAPTER XXXI. ON GENTLENESS OF MANNERS IN GENERAL.
- CHAPTER XXXII. THE IMPROVEMENT OF MANNERS BY THE ACTION OF THE CHURCH.
- CHAPTER XXXIII. ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC BENEFICENCE IN EUROPE.
- CHAPTER XXXIV. ON TOLERATION IN RELIGIOUS MATTERS.
- CHAPTER XXXV. ON THE RIGHT OF COERCION IN GENERAL.
- CHAPTER XXXVI. ON THE INQUISITION IN SPAIN.
- CHAPTER XXXVII. SECOND EPOCH OF THE INQUISITION IN SPAIN.
- CHAPTER XXXVIII. RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS IN THEMSELVES.
- CHAPTER XXXIX. OF RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS IN HISTORY.—THE FIRST SOLITARIES.
- CHAPTER XL. ON RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS IN THE EAST.
- CHAPTER XLI. OF RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS IN THE HISTORY OF THE WEST.
- CHAPTER XLII. OF RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS DURING THE SECOND HALF OF THE MIDDLE AGES.—THE MILITARY ORDERS.
- CHAPTER XLIII. CONTINUATION OF THE SAME SUBJECT—EUROPE IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY.
- CHAPTER XLIV. THE RELIGIOUS ORDERS FOR THE REDEMPTION OF CAPTIVES.
- CHAPTER XLV. THE UNIVERSAL PROGRESS OF CIVILIZATION IMPEDED BY PROTESTANTISM.
- CHAPTER XLVI. THE JESUITS.
- CHAPTER XLVII. THE FUTURE OF RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS.—THEIR PRESENT NECESSITY.
- CHAPTER XLVIII. RELIGION AND LIBERTY.
- CHAPTER XLIX. THE ORIGIN OF SOCIETY, ACCORDING TO CATHOLIC DIVINES.
- CHAPTER L. ON THE RIGHT DIVINE, ACCORDING TO THE CATHOLIC DOCTORS.
- CHAPTER LI. TRANSMISSION OF POWER, ACCORDING TO THE CATHOLIC DOCTORS.
- CHAPTER LII. FREEDOM OF SPEECH UNDER THE SPANISH MONARCHY.
- CHAPTER LIII. ON THE FACULTIES OF THE CIVIL POWER.
- CHAPTER LIV. ON RESISTANCE TO THE CIVIL POWER.
- CHAPTER LV. ON RESISTANCE TO DE FACTO GOVERNMENTS.
- CHAPTER LVI. HOW THE CIVIL POWER MAY BE LAWFULLY RESISTED.
- CHAPTER LVII. POLITICAL SOCIETY IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
- CHAPTER LVIII. MONARCHY IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
- CHAPTER LIX. THE ARISTOCRACY OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
- CHAPTER LX. ON DEMOCRACY.
- CHAPTER LXI. ON THE VALUE OF THE DIFFERENT POLITICAL FORMS—CHARACTER OF MONARCHY IN EUROPE.
- CHAPTER LXII. THE DEVELOPMENT OF MONARCHY IN EUROPE.
- CHAPTER LXIII. TWO KINDS OF DEMOCRACY.
- CHAPTER LXIV. STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE THREE SOCIAL ELEMENTS.
- CHAPTER LXV. POLITICAL DOCTRINES BEFORE THE APPEARANCE OF PROTESTANTISM.
- CHAPTER LXVI. POLITICAL DOCTRINES IN SPAIN.
- CHAPTER LXVII. POLITICAL LIBERTY AND RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE.
- CHAPTER LXVIII. UNITY IN FAITH NOT ADVERSE TO POLITICAL LIBERTY.
- CHAPTER LXIX. OF INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF CATHOLICITY.
- CHAPTER LXX. HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT.
- CHAPTER LXXI. RELIGION AND THE HUMAN MIND IN EUROPE.
- CHAPTER LXXII. ON THE PROGRESS OF THE HUMAN MIND FROM THE ELEVENTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT TIME.
- CHAPTER LXXIII. SUMMARY.—DECLARATION OF THE AUTHOR.
- NOTES.
- APPENDIX.
- INDEX.
- FOOTNOTES:
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