BOOK VI
The Absolution: First Phase

  1. The Absolution[214 ]
  2. The Diligence[215 ]
  3. Scrutiny of the Vote.—A Reminder
    of Principles.—Facts[217 ]
  4. Who Really Voted for M. Bonaparte[229 ]
  5. Concession[232 ]
  6. The Moral Side of the Question[234 ]
  7. An Explanation for M. Bonaparte's Benefit[238 ]
  8. Axioms[244 ]
  9. Wherein M. Bonaparte Has Deceived Himself[246 ]

BOOK VII
The Absolution: Second Phase: The Oath

  1. For an Oath, an Oath and a Half[251 ]
  2. Difference in Price[255 ]
  3. Oaths of Scientific and Literary Men[258 ]
  4. Curiosities of the Business[261 ]
  5. The 5th of April, 1852[266 ]
  6. Everywhere the Oath[272 ]

BOOK VIII
Progress Contained in the Coup D'État

  1. The Quantum of Good Contained in Evil[275 ]
  2. The Four Institutions That Stand Opposed to the Republic[280 ]
  3. Slow Movement of Normal Progress[282 ]
  4. What an Assembly Would Have Done[285 ]
  5. What Providence Has Done[289 ]
  6. What the Ministers, Army, Magistracy, and Clergy Have Done[291 ]
  7. The Form of the Government of God[292 ]

CONCLUSION—PART FIRST
Pettiness of the Master—Abjectness of the Situation

  1. [ 293 ]
  2. [ 298 ]
  3. [ 301 ]

CONCLUSION—PART SECOND
Faith and Affliction

  1. [ 315 ]
  2. [ 323 ]