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Title: Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3)
Essay 4: Joseph de Maistre
Author: John Morley
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CRITICAL MISCELLANIES
BY
JOHN MORLEY
VOL. II.
Essay 4: Joseph de Maistre
London
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
New York: The MacMillan Company
1905
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE.
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The Catholic reaction in France at the beginning of the century 257
De Maistre the best type of the movement 262
Birth, instruction, and early life 263
Invasion of Savoy, and De Maistre's flight 268
At Lausanne, Venice, and Cagliari 270
Sent in 1802 as minister to St. Petersburg 275
Hardships of his life there from 1802 to 1817 276
Circumstances of his return home, and his death 285
De Maistre's view of the eighteenth century 287
And of the French Revolution 291
The great problem forced upon the Catholics by it 293
De Maistre's way of dealing with the question of the divine
method of government 293
Nature of divine responsibility for evil 294
On Physical Science 298
Significance of such ideas in a mind like De Maistre's 299
Two theories tenable by social thinkers after the Revolution 303
De Maistre's appreciation of the beneficent work of the
Papacy in the past 307
Insists on the revival of the papal power as the essential
condition o
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