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The present time is hardly favourable to such experiments.While dreamers are pursuing their dreams, exciting appetites and the passions of the multitude, the peoples are every day arming themselves more powerfully.All feel that amid the universal competition of the present time there is no room for weak nations.

In the centre of Europe a formidable military Power is increasing in strength, and aspiring to dominate the world, in order to find outlets for its goods, and for an increasing population, which it will soon be unable to nourish.

If we continue to shatter our cohesion by intestine struggles, party rivalries, base religious persecutions, and laws which fetter industrial development, our part in the world will soon be over.We shall have to make room for peoples more solidly knit, who have been able to adapt themselves to natural necessities instead of pretending to turn back upon their course.The present does not repeat the past, and the details of history are full of unforeseen consequences; but in their main lines events are conditioned by eternal laws.

INDEX

Absolute monarchy, the Acceleration of forces of violence Administrations, real ruling forces Affective logic Affirmation, power of Alexander I of Russia Alsace loss of Ambition, as a motive of revolution Anarchy, followed by dictatorship; mental Ancestral soul Ancien regime, bases of the; inconveniences of; life under;dissolution of Ancients, Council of Anti-clerical laws Armies, of the Republic; character of; victories of; causes of success Army, role of, in revolution; in 1789Assemblies, the Revolutionary; psychology of; obedient to the clubs; see National, Constituent, Legislative Assemblies, Convention, &c.

Assignats Augustine, St.

Aulaud, M.

Austria, revolution in; royalist illusions as to her attitude;attacks the RepublicBalfour, Rt.Hon.A.J., on coal strike Barras Barrere Bartholomew, St., Massacre of; European rejoicing over Bastille, taking of the Battifol, M.

Bayle, P.

Beaulieu, Edict of Bedouin, executions at Belgium, invasion of Beliefs, affective and mystic origin of; intolerance of;justification of; intolerance greatest between allied beliefs;intolerance of democratic and socialistic beliefs Berquin, executed by Sorbonne Berry, Duchess de Billaud-Varenne Bismarck Blanc, Louis Blois, States of Bonaparte, see Napoleon Bonnal, General Bossuet Bourdeau, M.

Bourgeoisie, their jealousy of the nobles causes the Revolution;their thirst for revenge; the real authors of the Revolution;philosophic ideas of Brazilian Revolution, the Britanny, revolt in Broglie, de Brumaire, coup d'etat of Brunswick, Duke of, his manifesto Buddhism Bureaucracy in FranceCaesar, on division amid the Gauls Caesarism Caesars follow anarchy and dominate mobs Cahiers, the Calvin; compared to Robespierre Carnot Carrier; crimes of, and trial Catechism of the Scottish Presbyterians Catherine de Medicis Catholic League Cavaignac, General Chalandon Champ-de-Mars, affair of the Charles IXCharles X

China, revolution in Chinese labour Christian Revolution, the Christians, mutual hatred of Church, confiscation of goods of the Civil War Clemenceau, M.

Clergy; civil constitution of Clubs, the, 24- psychology of the; obeyed by the Assemblies;closed; increasing power of the; see Jacobins Coalition, the Cochin, A.

Colin, M.

Collective ideas; collective logic Collot d'Herbois Commissaries of the Convention, psychology of Committees, the Governmental Commune of Paris, the; in insurrection; chief power in State;orders massacre of September; tyranny of Commune of 1871Communes, the revolutionary Comte, A.

Concordat, the Condorcet Constituent Assembly, the; psychology of the; its fear of the people; temporarily resists the people; loses power; its last action Constitution of 1791; of 1793; of 1795; of the year VIIIConstitutions, faith in Constraints, social, necessity of Consulate, the Contagion, mental; causes of; in crowds Contrat Social, the Convention, giants of the; inconsistency of; decimates itself;psychology of the; cowardice of; mental characteristics of;composition of; fear in the; besieged by the Commune; surrenders Girondists; Government of the; abolishes royalty; dissolved Council of State Couthon Criminal mentality Cromwell Crowd, Psychology of the Crowds in the French Revolution Cruppi, M.

Cuba Cunisset-Carnot Currency, paperDanton Darwin, Charles Dausset, M.

``Days,''of May 31; June 2; of June 20; of Aug.10; of June 2; of Oct.5Debidour, M.

Declaration of Rights, the Democracy; intellectual and popular Departmental insurrections Desmoulins, Camille Dictatorship follows anarchy Diderot Directory, the, failure of; closes clubs; psychology of the;government of the; deportations under Discontent, result of Dreux-Breze Drinkmann, Baron Dubourg, Anne, burned Dumas, President of the Revolutionary Tribunal Dumouriez DurelEgo, analysis of the Elchingen, General Elizabeth, Empress of Russia Emigres, banished Empire, the Second Encyclopaedists, the England, coal strike in English Revolution; Constitution Enthusiasm Envy Equality EvolutionFaguet, E.