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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 6 (of 6), by Hippolyte A. Taine This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 6 (of 6) The Modern Regime, Volume 2 (of 2) Author: Hippolyte A. Taine Annotator: Svend Rom Translator: John Durand, 1880 Posting Date: June 18, 2008 [EBook #2582] Release Date: April, 2001 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MODERN REGIME V2 *** Produced by Svend Rom THE ORIGINS OF CONTEMPORARY FRANCE, VOLUME 6 THE MODERN REGIME, VOLUME 2 by Hippolyte A. Taine Contents: BOOK FIFTH. The Church. Chapter I. Moral Institutions Chapter Ii. Chapter Iii Book Sixth. Public Instruction. Chapter I. Chapter Ii. Chapter Iii. Evolution Between 1814 And 1890. ***** After Taine's death in March 1893, his nephew Andre Chevrillon arranged his last manuscripts on the Church and Education for publication and wrote the following introduction which also tells us much about Taine and his works ***** PREFACE By Andre Chevrillon. "To treat of the Church, the School, and the Family, describe the modern milieu and note the facilities and obstacles which a society like our own encounters in this milieu, such was the program of the last[5101] section of the "Origins of Contemporary France." The preceding volume is a continuation of the first part of this program; after the commune and the department, after local societies, the author was to study moral and intellectual bodies in France as organized by Napoleon. This study completed, this last step taken, he was about to reach the summit. He was about to view France as a whole, to comprehend it no longer through a detail of its organs, in a state of formation, but its actual existence; no longer isolated, but plunged, along with other occidental nations, into the modern milieu, experiencing with them the effects of one general cause which changed the physical and intellectual condition of men; which dissolved sentiments formerly grouping them together, more or less capable at length of adapting
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