Democracy and Liberty. William Edward Hartpole Lecky

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       Arguments for and against its permission

       The Council of Trent absolutely condemned it

       Catholicism admits many grounds of nullity

       Divorce of Napoleon from Josephine

       Divorce established in France on the widest system in 1792

       Regulated and restricted by the Civil Code

       Abolished in 1816, but retained in Belgium, the Rhenish Provinces, and Baden

       Re-enacted in 1884

       Admitted in Austria for non-Catholics

       Swiss and German laws

       Its increasing popularity in France

       The Protestant and Greek Churches never wholly condemned it

       Absurdity and injustice of the English system of granting it

       Remarks of Justice Maule

       The Divorce Act of 1857

       Its imperfections

       Compared with Australian legislation

       Examination of the effects of the Act

       Divorce laws not a cause of national demoralisation

       Their different types in Europe—Statistics of divorces

       Divorce in the United States

       Chiefly asked for by women

       Laws on illegitimacy

       The natural right to marriage accompanies the secularisation of marriage

       Restrictions only justified by grave dangers

       Marriage with a deceased wife’s sister

       CHAPTER 8 SOCIALISM

       Archaic element in modern Socialism

       Common property in land

       Condemnation of loans at interest

       Industrial corporate monopoly

       Absorption of individual rights by the State

       Greek communism

       The Sabbatical and Jubilee years of the Hebrews

       Common property in the early Church

       Socialistic tendencies of the Fathers

       Influence of the monasteries—Mediæval organisation of industry

       Causes that broke it up

       Social and economical convulsions at the Reformation

       The Anabaptists

       Literature of Utopias—More, Campanella, &c

       Socialistic doctrines in Montesquieu

       Rousseau

       Mably

       Morelly and Warville de Brissot

       Economical effects of the French Revolution

       Abolition of the jurandes and communautés

       Anticipated by Turgot

       Rights of property recognised at the Revolution

       Its hostility to all corporate industry

       Attacks on the rich in 1793

       Conspiracy of Babeuf

       Godwin

       Saint-Simon

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