America a Test Case
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
The Peace of Villafrance and the Roman question
Lord J. Russell's estimate of the plebiscites
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
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
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
Attitude of Government towards caste and idolatrous worship
Changes in the laws of inheritance and marriage
Memorandum of Colonel Herbert Edwardes
Philanthropic tendencies hostile to the old beliefs
Indian education and its effects
Mormonism
Polygamy not its original doctrine
Utah becomes an American Territory—Its early history