Chapter I: Preface

These Considerations, written during the last six years’ residence in France, have already appeared in the Press of the United States. They were written from year to year without any thought of republication, which seems justified to-day by the acuity of the conflict between the Church and the French atheocracy, a conflict which cannot but interest Christians everywhere.

J. N. B.

CONTENTS

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FIRST IMPRESSIONS 1

THE TWO CAMPS 7

THE ASSOCIATIONS BILL 13

THE ASSOCIATIONS BILL 18

ARBITRARY INCONSISTENCY 29

A PAGAN RENAISSANCE 33

INCONSISTENT JACOBINISM 40

UNAUTHORISED CONGREGATIONS 46

A COMBES _COUP DE MAIN_ 50

LEGALIZED DESPOTISM 57

DESPOTISM PLUS GUILE 63

UNCHANGING JACOBINISM 71

DEATH OF WALDECK ROUSSEAU 78

LIBERTY AND STATE SERVITUDE 82

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION 91

A PAPAL NOTE 105

FREEMASONRY 112

FREEMASONRY 118

PART SECOND 125

ALCOHOLISM IN FRANCE 131

THE LAW OF SEPARATION 135

CATHOLICISM IN GERMANY 144

PSEUDO-SEPARATION 147

THE PROGRESS OF ANARCHY 160

THE ABOLITION OF THE CONCORDAT 170

THE INVENTORIES 177

DUC IN ALTUM 185

THE LATEST PHASE OF SEPARATION 197

LIBERTY AND CHRISTIANITY 211

CHRISTIANITY AND CIVILIZATION 233