Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...chief of the Ultramontane party; and the government itself was anxious to win the adherence of one who had thus, in a single day, attained so notable a fame.7 68 Cf. Frayssinous, "Les Vrais Principes de 1'Eglise Gallicane" (ed. of 1826), p. 89. 69 Debidour, op. tit., p. 332. 60 Cf. Blaize, op. cit., I, 152, 159, 170, 177. 61 Blaize, op. cii., i, 201. The plan of the book is simple in the extreme. It is an attempt to show that social salvation depends upon the supremacy of Catholicism, and it demands intolerance as the price of that victory. It is the work of a man disturbed by the bewildering lack of unity in his time. Everywhere there is indifference to fundamental dogma; everywhere men have erected their system of private alternatives. On all sides there is an evident neglect of spiritual truth. Reason and the senses fight once again their eternal combat. But the fight against reason is the fight against order;68 and the result has been the pitiful lack of moral and political certitude. He does not, indeed, claim that this is a novel situation. Christianity--which for him is the combination of the spiritual truths thus far known to man--has struggled continuously to secure the paramountcy of reason.69 It fought the selfish interests of imperial Rome; it triumphed over the persecutions of the decadent pagans; the attacks of protestant sects revealed the unbreakable strength of its foundations. Deism, atheism, philosophy--all these have left it unmoved.70 62 Cf. Spuller, op. tit., p. 92. 63 Boutard, "Lamennais," I, 152. " "Oeuvres," XIV, 224. 66 Boutard, op. tit., I, 152-4. M "Considerations sur le syst me philosophique de M. de Lamennais," Ch. I. 87 Blaize, op. tit., I, 285. '8"Essai," I, 9 (ed. Gannier). 70 Ibid., p. 12-18. But the..."
