VII.J "WIR HEISSEN EUCH HOFFEN." 207 of our foreign critics that to quote the words of them-"the healthiness of our Parliamentary life" is "undermined," * "that" that "our hereditary aptitude in public affairs seems to be departing." These things, not to continue further the dreary catalogue, may well make us fear for the future of England. And yet "It is not to be thought of that the flood Of the world's praise, from dark antiquity Hath flowed, with pomp of waters unwithstood,' *The British Empire and other Essays, by Dr. Geffcken, p. 287. (Eng. Tr.) Naturalism in, one of the "notes" of the acrid, has taken the place of Rousseau's Theism in the Revolutionary theory of the public 78, 130, 135 134-139 139, 140 144 145 158 161 162 163 92, 93 95 109 13 INDEX. 211 PAGE Atheism-continued. "positive," not of faith in the Revolutionary religion. Atheists, esteemed by Mr. John Morley sensible men Augustine, St. on the bond of society on submission to truth Authority, Revolutionary doctrine concerning the ultimate source of, according to Christian philosophy Bagehot, Mr., on the nominal constituency in England Bailleul, on equality Balzac, on the idealising of crime on the mission of art no copyist from the streets 75 75, 77 53 130 53 12, 53 200 172 91 140 145 |