An edition of Literary, Scientific and Political Views of Orestes A. Brownson
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Literary, Scientific and Political Views of Orestes A. Brownson
by Brownson, Henry F. (Henry Francis), 1835... and Brownson, Orestes Augustus, 1803-1876
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Literary, Scientific And Political Views Of Orestes A. Brownson
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Table of Contents
CONTENTS
Dedication, iii
Preface v
LITERATURE.
American Literature, 1
Straining after Effect, 4
National Literature, 6
A Standard of Criticism, 8
Imagination, 11
Frivolousness of Modern Literature, 15
Professional Authors, 16
Literature must have an Aim, 18
Popular Errors should be Withstood, 20
Literature should be Christian, 21
Protestant and Catholic Literature, 23
Catholic Literature Pervaded by a Catholic Spirit, 24
Harmony between Religion and Literature, 24
The Novel of Instruction, 30
Religious Novels 33
Sentimentalism, 34
The Catholic Press, 37
EDUCATION.
The Common-School System, 41
The Religious Difficulty, 43
The Public-School System not to be Abandoned, 47
Separate Schools, 48
Education should be under Church Control, 61
Evangelical and National Schools, 62
The State has no Right to Educate, 63
All Education should be Religious, 65
Compulsory Education, 66
The Evil of Secular Education, 68
Education of the People, 75
Catholics Taxed Unjustly, 77
How the Danger may be Averted, 77
THE SCIENCES.
Unchristian Tone of Scientists, 84
The Method of Science, 86
The Bible Chronology, 92
The Unity of the Human Species, 94
Original Unity of Speech, 99
Physiological Science, 103
Effect of Physical Conditions on Human Development, 105
Plants and Animals, 110
The Physical Basis of Life, 111
Life from Death, 114
Hereditary Genius, 117
% Men Born with Unequal Abilities, 118
Influence of the Soul on the Body, 120
Civilization not Spontaneous, 125
The Savage is not Progressive, 126
Origin of Barbarism, 127
Progress the Creed of the Nineteenth Century 133
The Primitive was the True Religion, 134
Progress and Evolution, 137
Progress of Species, 140
No new Species Produced by Selection, 144
What False Scientists Deserve, 146
Phrenology, 149
THE UNITED STATES.
Self-Knowledge necessary to a Nation, 154
The Mission of the United States, 155
The Constitution Misunderstood 157
Government is Necessary, 158
The Nature of Government, 161
Civil Liberty 162
The Rights of Man, 164
Origin of Government, 166
Two Constitutions, 168
The Constitution of a State, 169
Modern Civilization, 170
Centralism and Feudalism, 171
Antagonism of Interests, 173
The Need of Statesmen, 174
The Constitution of Government, 176
Are the United States a Nation or a League? 177
A Nation De Facto is one De Jure, 180
The British Sovereignty Passed to the States United, 183
The Union and the States Born Together, 185
The United States not Created by Convention, 188
Sovereignty of the United States, 190
The Division of Power, 192
National Banks, 194
Protective Tariffs and Slavery, 195
Naturalization, 198
The Merit of the Statesmen of 1787, 199
The Weak Point in the American System, 201
Political Parties, 201
Local Self-Government, 202
POLITICAL ECONOMY.
The Modern Industrial System, 205
The Essence of Political Economy, 206
Supply Outruns Demand, 207
Free Trade and Protection, 208
Commerce does not Civilize, 209
We Cannot go Back, 210
The Wealth of Great Britain, 212
Our Own Danger, 212
Trade does not Enrich a People, 214
Political Economists take too Narrow a View, 215
Commerce and Manufactures are Ovedone, 217
Results of the Modern System, 218
What is the Remedy? 222
True Political Economy, 227
Duty of Capitalists, 228
Pretended Remedies, 231
Is Poverty an Evil? 232
Philanthropy and Charity, 236
The Church’s Method of Removing Evils, 239
Connection of the Federal Government with Banks, 242
Bank-Notes as Currency, 248
Lincoln’s Financial Administration, 250
The Credit System, 255
National Bank Notes, 259
Remedies, 260
The Protective Policy, 264
Express and Incidental Powers, 266
A Protective Tariff Defeats Revenue, 267
Protection of all Interests Absurd, 261
Protection Injures Agriculture, 269
Direct Taxation, 272
Active Partisanship of Office-Holders, 273
CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY.
Virtue and Intelligence Necessary to Sustain Free Institutions, 276
Tendency to Inequality, 278
Protestantism unable to Sustain Free Institutions, 280
Catholicity the Safety of the Republic, 285
Protestant Opposition will Fail, 288
Authority and Liberty, 290
The Church Saves from Despotism, 293
Church and State, 294
Religious Liberty, 297
Civil and Religious Toleration, 298
Religious Toleration Cannot be Contended For, 301
Civil Toleration, 302
Church and State in the Middle Ages, 307
The State must Tolerate all Religions, 309
The Church Uses only Moral Force, 310
Catholicity Compatible with Toleration, 317
The Church in the Dark Ages, 322
Catholics Indifferent to Mediaeval History, 330
The Humanists and Romanticists, 332
Inferiority of Mediaeval Men to the Ancients, 335
The Church not Responsible for the Middle Ages, 338
Proposed Alliance of Religion and Democracy, 340
Freedom of the Church will Secure Civil Freedom, 346
The Spread of Socialism, 349
The Remedy for Socialism, 350
Socialism Assumes the Christian Garb, 352
The Essence of Socialism, 354
Only Christianity can Remove Evils, 356
Socialism Destroys Liberty, 358
How Far Christianity Removes Evils, 359
PHILOSOPHY.
Philosophy Starts with Thought, 361
Analysis of Thought, 361
Subject and Object alike Certain, 362
The Ideal is Objective, 364
Universals, 366
Analysis of the Ideal, 368
Reality of the Necessary and Contingent, 369
Relation of Being and Existences, 371
Analysis of the Relation 372
The Relation that of Cause and Effect, 373
The Fact of Creation, 376
Intuition and Reflection, 377
Existences, 379
God is Free, 381
God as Final Cause, 384
The Duty to Obey God, 388
Obligation of Worship, 388
PHILOSOPHY OF THE SUPERNATURAL.
The Two Philosophies, 390
Defect of the Scholastic Method, 391
The Age has Lost Faith in the Supernatural, 392
Relation of the Natural and the Supernatural, 393
Principles of the Supernatural, 396
The Incarnation, 398
Unity of the Faith, 399
No New Theology, 400
Analytic and Synthetic Theology, 401
Creation a Dialectic Whole, 403
Heterodoxy Unsystematic, 405
The Church, 406
The Worship of Saints, 408
The Worship of the Blessed Virgin, 411
The Sacrifice of the Mass, 414
Invocation of Saints, 416
Value of the Synthetic Method, 417
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