Essay 4: Joseph de Maistre

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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
of a restored European order	[313]
Views Christianity from the statesman’s point of view	[314]
His consequent hatred of the purely speculative temper of the Greeks	[316]
His object was social or political	[318]
Hence his grounds for defending the doctrine of Infallibility	[319]
The analogy which lay at the bottom of his Ultramontane doctrine	[320]
His hostility to the authority of General Councils	[323]
His view of the obligation of the canons on the Pope	[325]
His appeal to European statesmen	[326]
Comte and De Maistre	[329]
His strictures on Protestantism	[331]
Futility of his aspirations	[335]