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French & English : $b A comparison
Hamerton, Philip Gilbert
National characteristics, English; National characteristics, French
Religion, real similarity between England and France, xii;
anomalous antipathies, xv;
relations between Catholics, Protestants, and Freethinkers, _ib._;
decay of reverence in France, 54;
in England confined to the Bible and the throne, 55;
State establishments, French and English compared, 141;
not national in France, 142;
international character of the Catholic priesthood, _ib._;
Anglicanism in England, Presbyterianism in Scotland, and
Catholicism in Ireland, 143;
co-establishments in France, _ib._;
changes under the Republic, 144;
contradiction, 145;
neutrality in France, _ib._;
toleration in England, 146;
modern idea of State protection to all creeds, _ib._;
disestablishment easy in France, 147;
in Great Britain and Ireland, _ib._;
impolicy of confiscating the stipends of priests in France, 148;
subscriptions for the Church easier than for science, 149;
proposed payment of the French clergy through the communes, 150;
disestablishment in England, 151;
natural jealousy of nonconformists, _ib._;
social power of the Church of Rome in France, 153;
isolation of Protestants in France, 155;
disadvantage of belonging to inferior sects, _ib._;
nominal orthodoxy alone required, 156;
dangers of nominal heterodoxy, 157;
State religion supported by Freethinkers, 157, 158;
two senses in the word “faith,” “custom” and “conviction,” 159;
sincerity tested by sacrifice, 160;
example of a young Frenchman, _ib._;
devotion of Catholic Sisters, 161;
strong faith in both Catholics and Protestants, 165;
distinction
between formalism and hypocrisy, 167;
philosophical Anglicans, 171;
examples in the English clergy, 172;
French equivalent, 173;
religion hereditary, _ib._;
external conformity in France, 174;
ritualism and formalism in England, 175;
no ritualist party in France, 176;
sham Christians in England and France, 184, 185;
revolutionised in England by Puritanism, 270;
observance of Sunday in France and England, 272;
incomes of the clergy in France and England, 379
Renan, his influence, 403
Republic, French, regarded by the Conservatives as a foreign
occupation, 391
Republic and Monarchy, misuse of the terms in France and England, 103
Republicans, French, their opposition to England, xvii
Republican sentiment cooling in France, 135
Reverence, dying out in France, 54;
decaying in England except towards the Bible and the Throne, 55
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