R II. DRAWING ROOM LIFE.
I. Perfect only in France
II. Social Life Has Priority.
III. Universal Pleasure Seeking.
IV. Enjoyment.
V. Happiness.
VI. Gaiety.
VII. Theater, Parade And Extravagance.
CHAPTER III. DISADVANTAGES OF THIS DRAWING ROOM LIFE.
I. Its Barrenness and Artificiality
II. Return To Nature And Sentiment.
III. Personality Defects.
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.
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.
IV. The Peasant Becomes Landowner.
CHAPTER II. TAXATION THE PRINCIPAL CAUSE OF MISERY.
I. Extortion.
II. Local Conditions.
III. The Common Laborer.
IV. Collections And Seizures.—Observe the system actually at work. It
V. Indirect Taxes.
VI. Burdens And Exemptions.
VII. Municipal Taxation.
VIII. Complaints In The Registers.
CHAPTER III. INTELLECTUAL STATE OF THE PEOPLE.
I. Intellectual incapacity
II. Political incapacity
III. Destructive impulses
IV. Insurrectionary lea
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