The Quarterly Review Volume 206 (Paperback)

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...of discipline and in the administration of its affairs.' These are also the sentiments of M. Ribot, who, having thus made clear his own attitude towards the Papacy, went on to say that the separation of Church and State had been effected 'in circumstances galling to the Holy See and consequently not less dangerous for the State than for the Catholic Church.' Among M. Ribot's audience was also M. Viviani, who, as the head of the newly-founded department of Labour, had, in his first official speech at the Chamber, thought fit to utter a rhetorical paean to celebrate the passing-away of old beliefs. For ' the vanity and pitiful metaphysic' of freethinking politicians of his school M. Ribot had a word, asking them if they imagined that, 'in the name of scientific progress, they were going to destroy all faith in the supernatural; and that the whole human race, weary of believing and hoping, would cease its searching, beyond the visible world, for the secret of its destiny and the solace of its sufferings.' These obiter dicta of the leader of the Republican Opposition, uttered by chance almost at the same hour as the anxious words of the Prime Minister of the Republic, show forth some of the reasons why M. Clemenceau should have compared the difficulty of the present situation with that of the year of national disaster. The quasi-official boast of the Minister of Labour, in spite of its rhetorical form, expressed a plain truth--that the Radical-Socialists wish not merely to check the pretensions of clericalism and to assert the superiority of the temporal over the spiritual power, but to stamp out the influence of revealed religion within the nation. This has been the widespread teaching of the most active party in France ever since it became...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...of discipline and in the administration of its affairs.' These are also the sentiments of M. Ribot, who, having thus made clear his own attitude towards the Papacy, went on to say that the separation of Church and State had been effected 'in circumstances galling to the Holy See and consequently not less dangerous for the State than for the Catholic Church.' Among M. Ribot's audience was also M. Viviani, who, as the head of the newly-founded department of Labour, had, in his first official speech at the Chamber, thought fit to utter a rhetorical paean to celebrate the passing-away of old beliefs. For ' the vanity and pitiful metaphysic' of freethinking politicians of his school M. Ribot had a word, asking them if they imagined that, 'in the name of scientific progress, they were going to destroy all faith in the supernatural; and that the whole human race, weary of believing and hoping, would cease its searching, beyond the visible world, for the secret of its destiny and the solace of its sufferings.' These obiter dicta of the leader of the Republican Opposition, uttered by chance almost at the same hour as the anxious words of the Prime Minister of the Republic, show forth some of the reasons why M. Clemenceau should have compared the difficulty of the present situation with that of the year of national disaster. The quasi-official boast of the Minister of Labour, in spite of its rhetorical form, expressed a plain truth--that the Radical-Socialists wish not merely to check the pretensions of clericalism and to assert the superiority of the temporal over the spiritual power, but to stamp out the influence of revealed religion within the nation. This has been the widespread teaching of the most active party in France ever since it became...

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2013

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2013

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246 x 189 x 12mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

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358

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978-1-155-00158-6

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9781155001586

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1-155-00158-3



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