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The History Of Freedom And Other Essays

CONTENTS Portrait or Lord Acton Frontispiece Chronicle viii Introduction ix I. The History of Freedom in Antiquity 1 II. The History of Freedom in Christianity 30 III. Sir Erskine May's Democracy in Europe 61 IV. The Massacre of St. Bartholomew 101 V. The Protestant Theory of Persecution 150 VI. Political Thoughts on the Church 188 VII. Introduction to L. A. Burd's Edition of II Principe by Machiavelli 212 VIII. Mr. Goldwin Smith's Irish History 232 IX. Nationality 270 X. DOLLINGER ON THE TEMPORAL POWER XI. DOLLINGER'S HISTORICAL WORK 375 XII. Cardinal Wiseman and The Home and Foreign Review 436 XIII. Conflicts with Rome 461 XIV. The Vatican Council 492 XV. A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages. By Henry Charles Lea 551 XVI. The American Commonwealth. By James Bryce 575 XVII. Historical Philosophy in France and French Belgium 'and Switzerland. By Robert Flint 588 Appendix 597 Index 599 · "First edition 1907; reprinted 1909, 1919." · Includes bibliographical references · Chronicle--Introduction.--I. The history of freedom in antiquity [Address, Bridgnorth institution, 16th Feb. 1877]--II. The history of freedom in Christianity [Address, Bridgnorth institution, 28th May, 18

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