The censorship of the Church of Rome and its influence upon the production and distribution of literature, volume 2 (of 2)Putnam, George Haven
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The censorship of the Church of Rome and its influence upon the production and distribution of literature, volume 2 (of 2)
Putnam, George Haven
Freedom of the press; Liberty of conscience; Prohibited books
In 1762, a prohibition of the Inquisition contains the title of
_La petite Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire des Philosophes, oeuvre
posthume d’un de ces Messieurs_. The entry is followed by the remark
“_Ridiculum acri fortius et malius plerumque secat res_. Anvers,
1761.” This title probably refers to a reprint of some portions of the
encyclopaedia. Between 1758 and 1800, were placed upon the Index at
intervals practically all of the works of Voltaire, but, excepting in
Spanish Indexes, the term _Opera omnia_ does not appear. In 1762, the
treatise by Rousseau on education, entitled _Émile_, was prohibited
by the Inquisition; and in the same year, the book was ordered by the
Parliament of Paris to be burned. It was also censured by the Sorbonne
and prohibited for France by the Archbishop of Paris. The work was also
condemned by the Protestant authorities in Geneva.
In 1784, was prohibited, by a brief of Pius VI, a work issued under the
title of _Recherches Philosophiques sur les Américains ou Mémoires
intéressants pour servir a l’Histoire de l’Humanité_. The author was
Cornelius de Paw, a canon in Zante.
In 1761, the Congregation prohibits the French version of the essay
by David Hume, _A Treatise on the Human Understanding_. This
edition had been printed in Amsterdam in 1758, twenty years after the
appearance of the original.
Gibbon’s _Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_, printed in an
Italian edition in 1776, was prohibited in 1783. The writings of
Thomas Paine and Joseph Priestly escaped the attention of the compilers
of the Roman Index, but the name of the latter author appears in the
Spanish Index of 1806.
The writings of Frederick the Great of Prussia, as printed in Berlin,
in 1750, under the title of _Oeuvres du Philosophe de Sans-Souci_,
receive the compliment of prohibition by the Inquisition in 1760. The
Spanish Index does not include the works but does find place for the
_Mémoires pour servir à l’Histoire de la Maison de Brandebourg_.
=25. Works on Philosophy and Natural Science, 1800–1880.=--Among
the works prohibited during the period in question in the department of
philosophy and natural science, may be noted the following:
Villiers, Ch. de, _A Treatise on Kant_, printed in Paris in 1801,
prohibited in 1817. An Italian edition of Kant’s _Critique of Pure
Reason_, printed (in Rome) in 1821, prohibited in the same year.
Buhle, J. G., _Geschichte der neuern Philosophie_, printed in Leipsic,
1800–1805, prohibited (in the French and Italian versions) in 1828.
Tennemann, _Grundriss der Gesch. der Philosophie_, printed in Leipsic
in 1812, prohibited (in the Italian version) in 1837, prohibited again
(in a Polish version) in 1865.
Bentham, Jeremy. Of this author practically all the works find place
sooner or later in the Index, but the term _Opera omnia_ has not
been used.
Whately, Richard, _Elements of Logic_, printed in 1822, prohibited
in 1851.
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