or suitable to either; they could not discover any other remedy for anarchy than absolutism. In the natural and never-ending conflict of the two great forces whose co-existence imparts vital energy to human society--authority and liberty--they declared for the former alone, thus ignoring the right of thought, the spirit of our times, and the general course of Christian civilization. {24} When attacked in her essence, Religion should be defended as she was founded, in herself and for herself, setting aside every political consideration, and in the name alone of the problems which lay siege to man's soul, and of the relations of man's soul with God. "Render unto Cesar the things which are Cesar's, and unto God the things that are God's," said Jesus to the Pharisees when they sought to embarrass and to compromise him politically. Thus did Jesus himself define the proper and paramount characteristic of his work. He did not come to destroy or to found any government; he came to feed, to regulate, and to save the human soul, leaving to time and to the natural efficacy of events the development of the social consequence of his religious faith and of his religious law. M. de Bonald and M. de Maistre joined too often together God and Cesar. {25} They thought too much of Cesar while defending God. In doing this they changed and compromised the character of that great movement, the Awakening of Christianity, which their conduct otherwise provoked and served. [Footnote 3] [Footnote 3: "The dead move quick," says the poet Burger in his ballad of Leonora. The men and the books I record died at a period already distant from us; and in spite of their fame that abides, they are probably little known to the generation at present in possession of the stage. I regard it, therefore, as not improper for me to mention below the titles of their principal works, of which I have in the text sought to determine the true character. Those of M. de Bonald are: 1. La Théorie du pouvoir politique et religieux. 3 vols. 8vo. Constance: 1796. 2. La Législation. primitive. 3 vols. 8vo. Paris: 1821. 3. L'Essai sur le divorce. 1 vol. 8vo. Paris. 4. Les Recherches philosophique. 2 vols. 8vo. 1818 and 1826. 5. Les Mélanges littéraires et politiques. 2 vols. 8vo. 6. Pensées et discours. 2 vols. 8vo. All these writings, with some others, have been collected in the complete edition of the works of M. de Bonald, in seven volumes. 8vo. Paris: 1854. The principal works of M. de Maistre are: 1. Considerations sur la France. 1 vol. 8vo. 1796. 2. Essai sur le principe générateur des constitutions politiques et des autres institutions humaines. 1 vol. 8vo. 1810. 3. Du Pape. 2 vols. 8vo. 1819.] 4. De l'Église gallicane dans son rapport avec le souverain pontife. 8vo. 1821. 5. Examen de la philosophic de Bacon. 2 vols. 8vo. 1836.