VIII. France was the Country in which Men had become the most alike 67 IX. Showing how Men thus similar were more divided than ever into small Groups, estranged from and indifferent to each other 71 X. The Destruction of Political Liberty and the Estrangement of Classes were the causes of almost all the disorders which led to the Dissolution of the Old Society of France 84 XI. Of the Species of Liberty which existed under the Old Monarchy, and of the Influence of that Liberty on the Revolution 94 XII. Showing that the Condition of the French Peasantry, notwithstanding the progress of Civilisation, was sometimes worse in the Eighteenth Century than it had been in the Thirteenth 105 XIII. Showing that towards the Middle of the Eighteenth Century Men of Letters became the leading Political Men of France, and of the effects of this occurrence 119 XIV. Showing how Irreligion had become a general and dominant passion amongst the French of the Eighteenth Century, and what influence this fact had on the character of the Revolution 128 XV. That the French aimed at Reform before Liberty 136 XVI. Showing that the Reign of Louis XVI. was the most prosperous epoch of the old French Monarchy, and how this very prosperity accelerated the Revolution 146 XVII. Showing that the French People were excited to revolt by the means taken to relieve them 155 XVIII. Concerning some practices by which the Government completed the Revolutionary Education of the People of France 162 XIX. Showing that a great Administrative Revolution had preceded the Political Revolution, and what were the consequences it produced 166 XX. Showing that the Revolution proceeded naturally from the existing State of France 175 SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER. On the Pays d’États, and especially on the Constitutions of Languedoc 182 _BOOK III._ I. Of the violent and undefined Agitation of the Human Mind at the moment when the French Revolution broke out 192 II. How this vague perturbation of the Human Mind suddenly became in France a positive passion, and what form this passion at first assumed 201