The Ancient Regime. Taine Hippolyte

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BOOK THIRD. THE SPIRIT AND THE DOCTRINE.

       CHAPTER I. SCIENTIFIC ACQUISITION.

       I. Scientific Progress.

       II. Science Detached From Theology.

       III. The Transformation Of History.

       IV. The New Psychology.

       V. The Analytical Method.

       CHAPTER II. THE CLASSIC SPIRIT, THE SECOND ELEMENT.

       I. Through Colored Glasses.

       II. Its Original Deficiency.

       III. The Mathematical Method.

       CHAPTER III. COMBINATION OF THE TWO ELEMENTS.

       I. Birth Of A Doctrine, A Revelation.

       II. Ancestral Tradition And Culture.

       III. Reason At War With Illusion.

       IV. Casting Out The Residue Of Truth And Justice.

       V. The Dream Of A Return To Nature.

       VI. The Abolition Of Society. Rousseau.

       VII: The Lost Children.

       CHAPTER IV. ORGANIZING THE FUTURE SOCIETY.

       I. Liberty, Equality And Sovereignty Of The People.

       II. Naive Convictions

       III. Our True Human Nature.

       IV. Birth Of Socialist Theory, Its Two Sides.

       V. Social Contract, Summary.

       BOOK FOURTH. THE PROPAGATION OF THE DOCTRINE.

       CHAPTER I.—SUCCESS OF THIS PHILOSOPHY IN FRANCE.—FAILURE OF THE SAME

       I. The Propagating Organ, Eloquence.

       II. Its Method.

       Owing to this method it becomes popular.

       III. Its Popularity.

       IV. The Masters.

       CHAPTER II. THE FRENCH PUBLIC.

       I. The Nobility.

       II. Conditions In France.

       III. French Indolence.

       IV. Unbelief.

       V. Political Opposition.

       VI. Well-Meaning Government.

       CHAPTER III. THE MIDDLE CLASS.

       I. The Past.

       II. CHANGE IN THE CONDITION OF THE BOURGEOIS.

       III. Social Promotion.

       IV. Rousseau's Philosophy Spreads And Takes HOLD.

       V. Revolutionary Passions.

       VI. Summary

       BOOK FIFTH. THE PEOPLE

       CHAPTER I. HARDSHIPS.

       I. Privations.

       II. The Peasants.

       III. The Countryside.

       Aspects of the country and of the peasantry.

       IV. The Peasant Becomes Landowner.

       CHAPTER II. TAXATION THE PRINCIPAL CAUSE OF MISERY.

       I. Extortion.

       II.


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