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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

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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.

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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

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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