V. THE PROTESTANT THEORY OF PERSECUTION 150 VI. POLITICAL THOUGHTS ON THE CHURCH 188 VII. INTRODUCTION TO L.A. BURD'S EDITION OF IL PRINCIPE BY MACHIAVELLI 212 VIII. MR. GOLDWIN SMITH'S IRISH HISTORY 232 IX. NATIONALITY 270 X. DOeLLINGER ON THE TEMPORAL POWER 301 XI. DOeLLINGER'S HISTORICAL WORK 375 XII. CARDINAL WISEMAN AND THE HOME AND FOREIGN REVIEW 436 XIII. CONFLICTS WITH ROME 461 XIV. THE VATICAN COUNCIL 492 XV. A HISTORY OF THE INQUISITION OF THE MIDDLE AGES. BY HENRY CHARLES LEA 551 XVI. THE AMERICAN COMMONWEALTH. BY JAMES BRYCE 575 XVII. HISTORICAL PHILOSOPHY IN FRANCE AND FRENCH BELGIUM AND SWITZERLAND. BY ROBERT FLINT 588 APPENDIX 597 INDEX 599 CHRONICLE JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG-ACTON, born at Naples, 10th January 1834, son of Sir Ferdinand Richard Edward Dalberg-Acton and Marie de Dalberg, afterwards Countess Granville. French school near Paris. 1843-1848. Student at Oscott " " Edinburgh. 1848-1854. " " Munich University, living with Doellinger. 1855. Visits America in company with Lord Ellesmere. 1858-1862. Becomes editor of _The Rambler_. 1859-1865. M.P. for Carlow. 1862-1864. Founds, edits, and concludes _The Home and Foreign Review_. 1864. Pius IX. issued _Quanta Cura_, with appended _Syllabus Errorum_. 1865-1866. M.P. for Bridgnorth 1865. Marries Countess Marie Arco-Valley. 1867-1868. Writes for _The Chronicle_. 1869. Created Baron Acton. 1869-1871. Writes for _North British Review_. 1869-1870. Vatican Council. Acton at Rome. Writes "Letters of Quirinus" in _alleging Zeitung_. 1872. Honorary degree at Munich. 1874. Letters to _The Times_ on "The Vatican Decrees." 1888. Honorary degree at Cambridge. 1889. " " Oxford. 1890. Honorary Fellow of All Souls'. 1892-1895. Lord-in-Waiting. 1895-1902. Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge Honorary Fellow of Trinity College. 19th June 1902. Died at Tegernsee. INTRODUCTION