Catholicism and the Second French Republic, 1848-1852 |
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Page 87 - ... on the great questions that concern humanity. We desire to know what he said and wrote, not what he did beyond the study and the domestic or the social circle. The chief external facts in his career are the dates of the publication of his successive books. Daniel Defoe is an exception to this rule. He was a man of action as well as a man of letters. The writing of the books which have given him immortality was little more than an accident in his career, a comparatively trifling and casual item...
Page 19 - This is the unwilling scepticism in which I rest; but this scepticism is in no way painful to me, for it does not extend to matters of practice, and I am well assured as to the principles underlying all my duties. I serve God in the simplicity of my heart; I only seek to know what affects my conduct. As to those dogmas which have no effect upon action or morality, dogmas about which so many men torment themselves, I give no heed to them. I regard all individual religions as so many wholesome institutions...
Page 21 - Such, in fact, were the events which actually occurred in this country during the latter part of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century. The inventions of...
Page 25 - Essai d'un traite complet de Philosophie, au point de vue du catholicisme et du progres...
Page 19 - What sweetness, what purity in his manners ! what affecting grace in his instructions ! what elevation in his maxims ! what profound wisdom in his discourses ! what...
Page 135 - Normanby advised him not to appear to advocate the indefinite prolongation of the present unpopular assembly. "The general's only answer was that new elections for some time to come would destroy the republic. I said: 'Then you do not think the country republican?
Page 159 - I deplore with all my soul that he has not perceived that the maintenance of the temporal sovereignty of the venerable head of the church is intimately connected with the lustre of Catholicity, as well as with the liberty and independence of Italy.
Page 25 - The golden age is not behind us, but in front of us. It is the perfection of the social order. Our fathers have not seen it, our children will arrive there one day, and it is for us to clear the way for them.
Page 271 - Socialism. My choice is made — I am for authority against revolt, for preservation against destruction, for society against Socialism, for the possible liberty of good against the certain liberty of evil ; and in the great struggle between the two forces which divide the world, I think that in acting so I am again on the present occasion, as always, for Catholicism against revolution.
Page 183 - But in spite of the pressure that was brought to bear on the government by the ardent champions of the rights of Pius IX, no immediate action was taken.