Humanity is perhaps going to be shrewder and more clever, but certainly not better, more intelligent and more enterprising. I see the time coming when God will lose His delight in mankind, and when He will let it be beaten into fragments so that creation can be remade and rejuvenated.

—GOETHE

I will not cease to hold under the banner of religion in one hand the oriflamme of monarchy, and in the other the flag of the civil liberties.

—CHATEAUBRIAND (1827)

NOTES TO CHAPTER ONE

On the early horror for the republican form of government cf. John C. Miller, Origins of the American Revolution (Boston: Little, Brown, 1943), p. 499.

NOTES TO CHAPTER TWO

NOTES TO CHAPTER FIVE

The terms liberty, equality, liberalism, democracy, freedom, since they refer to the main theme of this book, are listed only in parts.

A

Abel, Theodor, 265–66, 363

Absolute, the (Catholic implications), 191, 242, 243, 244–45

Absolutism, 83; (Catholic) 191; 205, 236

Académie Française, 143

Acton, Lord (John Dalberg-Acton), 14, 22, 130, 152, 201, 289, 291, 317

Adam (and Eve), 95, 313

M

Mably, Gabriel de (Abbé), 91, 305

Macartney, H. A., 331

Macaulay, Th. B. (Lord), 22, 117, 289, 309

Maček, Vladimir, 145

MacGifford, A. C., 351

Machado, Antonio, 345, 365

Mackenzie, Compton, 334

MacLaughlin, Andrew C., 286

Macomber, William F., 325

Mac Williams, Carey, 314

Madariaga, Salvador de, 207, 336, 337, 344, 345