Category: Philosophy & Ethics
"A remarkable series of religious meditations. They form a sequel to a similar volume on the Essence of Christianity, published two years ago, and an introduction to a further series, in which M. Guizot proposes to treat the great questions of the history of Christianity, and...
I am far from contesting this principle with them, but they forget that it _has_ been, and still _is_, strongly contested: contested by both ancient and modern philosophers. Som...
9. Part 9The empire of circumstances, both in the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, has had much to do with the adoption of these two doctrines, thus conceived and expressed. The C...
4. Part 4"This Atheism is so much the more dangerous and contagious in these days, that it does not appear in the shape of a mere revolt or falling off of the mind, but as a generous doc...
12. Part 12Many principles of science are beautiful and fruitful in useful applications; political theories may strike the mind by the elevation of the ideas which they embody, and by the...
13. Part 13Every doctrine, religious, moral, or political, has yet to submit to a test--the great test--the practical application. The idea has to be transformed into reality, the thought...
10. Part 10I do not hesitate, then, to affirm, that human science, in its different and special objects,--whether astronomy, geology, geography, chronology, physics, historical criticism,-...
2. Part 2I have heard it remarked by clear-sighted men who are good observers, that this malady of the mind is decreasing, and that even amongst the labouring classes themselves, false n...
8. Part 8In these days more than ever morality has need of God. I am far from thinking ill of my country or of my age; I believe that they progress, that they have a future; but humanity...
3. Part 3It is the absolute necessity of this co-operation of the public in the life of free government which gives so capital an importance to the popular beliefs, moral and religious....
6. Part 6But amongst Roman Catholic nations, priests are the objects of a persistent distrust which has been the fruitful source of much calamity to Christianity. History forbids surpris...
1. Part 1"A remarkable series of religious meditations. They form a sequel to a similar volume on the Essence of Christianity, published two years ago, and an introduction to a further s...
5. Part 5Let me not be accused of forgetting that since the triumph of Christianity, oppressive tyrannies and odious persecutions have occurred in, different Christian societies in the n...
11. Part 11The Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, and the Epistles, as unanimously and persistently as they have proclaimed the Incarnation, contain and proclaim another great truth of Chr...
14. Part 14The anonymous author has expressed in a very short preface his intention in writing this volume, as well as its fundamental ideas. "Those who feel," says he, "dissatisfied with...