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HISTORY OF THE INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPE. REVISED EDITION, IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. BY JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER, M.D., LL.D.,

Professor of Chemistry in the University of New York,
Author of a "Treatise on Human Physiology," "Civil Policy of America," "History of the American Civil War," &c.

NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
FRANKLIN SQUARE.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1876, by
HARPER & BROTHERS,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

CONTENTS.

[CHAPTER I.]

THE AGE OF FAITH IN THE WEST. THE THREE ATTACKS: NORTHERN OR MORAL; WESTERN OR INTELLECTUAL; EASTERN OR MILITARY.

THE NORTHERN OR MORAL ATTACK ON THE ITALIAN SYSTEM, AND ITS TEMPORARY REPULSE.