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CONTENTS
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Portrait of Lord Acton Frontispiece
Chronicle viii
Introduction ix
I. The History of Freedom in Antiquity 1
II. The History of Freedom in Christianity 30
III. Sir Erskine May's Democracy in Europe 61
IV. The Massacre of St. Bartholomew 101
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. Döllinger on the Temporal Power 301
XI. Döllinger'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

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