Democracy and Liberty. William Edward Hartpole Lecky

America a Test Case

       Its annexations

       The secession of the South

       Analysis of English opinion on the War of Secession

       The Northern case for repressing the revolt

       Nearly all European predictions about the war proved false

       The Italian Question

       Impulse it gave to the doctrine of nationalities

       Invasions of Naples and Rome

       The Peace of Villafrance and the Roman question

       The Italian policy of England

       Lord J. Russell's estimate of the plebiscites

       Success of the English policy

       Policy of Napoleon III.—And of England

       The unity of Italy dearly purchased

       The unity of Germany—The agglomeration of race elements

       Conflicting tendencies towards agglomeration and towards local unities

       Increased value attached to national languages

       The military system accentuates national differences

       Difficulties of reconciling local aspirations with imperial interests

       Influences that are weakening the nationalist spirit

       CHAPTER 6 DEMOCRACY AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY

       Nations differ in their conceptions of liberty and in the kinds of liberty they value

       Importance of taking stock of our conceptions of liberty

       Religious Freedom

       Its growth in English law

       And in public opinion—Causes of increased tolerance

       Contrast between Catholic opinion in England and that in Rome and Canada

       Abolition of religious disqualifications in the United States

       In France, Belgium, and Prussia

       Slow progress of the movement in England—The Catholic question

       Disqualifications of Nonconformists, Jews, Atheists, &c., gradually abolished

       Higher education thrown open to Dissenters—Its effects

       The Established Church—Arguments for and against it changed

       The modern case for an establishment

       Strengthened by abolition of disqualifications

       Enlargement of the limits of the Church—Relation of Nonconformists to it

       Subscription to Articles—Indelibility of orders—Decisions of Privy Council

       Decline of intolerance in continental legislations—Sweden

       Austria

       Spain and Portugal

       Limitation or modification of religious liberty

       India

       Early religious policy of the East India Company

       Admission of missionaries in 1813

       Prohibition of infanticide and human sacrifices

       Abolition of the suttee

       Attitude of Government towards caste and idolatrous worship

       Measures of 1833 and 1838

       Changes in the laws of inheritance and marriage

       Memorandum of Colonel Herbert Edwardes

       Queen's Proclamation in 1858

       Philanthropic tendencies hostile to the old beliefs

       Indian education and its effects

       Mormonism

       Polygamy not its original doctrine

       Early history of Mormonism

       Murder of Joseph Smith

       Emigration to the Salt Lake

       Utah becomes an American Territory—Its early history

       Should polygamy be tolerated?