Category: Philosophy & Ethics
When I published, two years ago, the first series of these _Meditations_, the series which had for its object the essence of Christianity, "that is to say, the natural problems to which Christianity is the answer, the fundamental dogmas by which it solves those problems, and t...
Side by side with these violent and insulting invectives leveled at the government of France, the _Avenir_ placed a declaration of respect and submission to the chief of the Chu...
5. Part 5"Faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone," says the Apostle St. James. Christianity has borne abundant fruits since its awakening at the commencement of this century....
2. Part 2In holding this language in his very first work, the Abbé de la Mennais was already forgetting that he was a Christian and a Catholic. When a man demands here below an infallibl...
15. Part 15Pantheism sometimes ignores and omits, sometimes formally denies, these facts, which psychology attests and proves. There is, however, a notable difference in this point in the...
13. Part 13One can scarcely refrain from a smile when he contemplates these dreams reduced to the form of system, ignoring every sentiment of reality, and expounded with the confidence of...
14. Part 14The moral instincts, and the naturally lofty mind of M. Comte revolted at this consequence, although it flowed imperiously from his system. The respect which he felt for the met...
9. Part 9Upon a single point, the relations of Church and State, his usual comprehensiveness of view and independence of thought appeared to abandon M. Vinet. {183} Justly struck and aff...
10. Part 10I see there manifold associations, enterprises supposing a long duration of existence, unremitting efforts for the moral development of men; for the bodily solace of their earth...
12. Part 12"Utility is perhaps the highest motive to which reason can attain. ... It is from the moral or religious faculty alone that we obtain the conception of the purely disinterested....
11. Part 11That school has obtained another result more important still, and which belongs no longer to the polemics of simple negation, but to positive doctrine; it has set in the broad l...
16. Part 16In this, what do they more than add an abstraction to an abstraction, and an hypothesis to an hypothesis? We are here in the presence of facts that are certain and yet perplexin...
8. Part 8They had another principle of force as well; a force born and developed in the bosom of the Christian religion, and in that alone; they had the passionate desire to save human s...
1. Part 1When I published, two years ago, the first series of these _Meditations_, the series which had for its object the essence of Christianity, "that is to say, the natural problems...
7. Part 7No such embarrassment was experienced by M. Daniel Encontre when he began his career to serve the movement of awakened Christianity in the bosom of French Protestantism. I will...
4. Part 4Still, the violent measures of Napoleon did not fail to encounter, sometimes rebukes, and occasionally resistance, on the part of the clergy; it was not only that some prelates...
17. Part 17The effects of this intellectual contagion vary with the social regions into which it penetrates, and the dispositions that it there encounters. When the systems of philosophy p...
6. Part 6A Catholic priest, now a bishop, inquiring the origin of the actual disputes of religion, and their probable issue, expresses himself as follows:--"Free institutions, freedom of...