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CHAP. 1. Vices and Virtues according to Religion...........
IV. Of the Moral Laws, or the Ten Commandments...........
BOOK III.
THE TRUTHS OF THE SCRIPTURES-THE FALL OF MAN.
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CHAP. I. The Superiority of the History of Moses to all other Cosmogonies 107
II. The Fall of Man-The Serpent--Remarks on a Hebrew Word... 110
III. Primitive Constitution of Man-New proof of Original Sin....... 114
BOOK IV.
CONTINUATION OF THE TRUTHS OF SCRIPTURE-OBJECTIONS
AGAINST THE SYSTEM OF MOSES.
CHAP. I. Chronology...........
PAGE
119
II. Logography and Historical Facts................................................................................ 122
III. Astronomy.....
IV. Continuation of the preceding subject-Natural History-The
Deluge..............
V. Youth and Old Age of the Earth.........
BOOK V.
133
136
THE EXISTENCE OF GOD DEMONSTRATED BY THE WONDERS OF
NATURE.
CHAP. I. Object of this Book...............
II. A General Survey of the Universe.....................................................
III. Organization of Animals and Plants..
V. Song of Birds-Made for Man-Laws relative to the cries of
Animals
138
139
141
145
147
VII. Migrations of Birds-Aquatic Birds-Their Habits-Goodness
of Providence...............
152
VIII. Sea-Fowl-In what manner serviceable to Man-In ancient times
Migrations of Birds served as a Calendar to the husbandman 156
IX. The subject of Migrations concluded-Quadrupeds..................................
X. Amphibious Animals and Reptiles....
III. There can be no Morality if there is no Future State-Presump-
tion in favor of the Immortality of the Soul deduced from
VI. The conclusion of the Doctrines of Christianity-State of Pu-
nishments and Rewards in a Future Life-Elysium of the
Ancients......
VII. The Last Judgment...........
VIII. Happiness of the Righteous......
PART II.
THE POETIC OF CHRISTIANITY.
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207
BOOK I.
GENERAL SURVEY OF CHRISTIAN EPIC POEMS.
CHAP. I. The Poetic of Christianity is divided into Three Branches:-
Poetry, the Fine Arts, and Literature-The Six Books of
this Second Part treat in an especial manner of Poetry........ 210
II. General Survey of the Poems in which the Marvellous of Chris-
tianity supplies the place of Mythology-The Inferno of
Dante-The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso....
III. Paradise Lost.......
212
IV. Of some French and Foreign Poems...........
V. The Henriad...........
BOOK II.
OF POETRY CONSIDERED IN ITS RELATIONS TO MAN.
Characters.
CHAP. I. Natural Characters........
II. The Husband and Wife-Ulysses and Penelope...........
III. The Husband and Wife continued-Adam and Eve...
X. Continuation of the Priest-The Sibyl-Jehoiada-Parallel be-
tween Virgil and Racine.........
257
XI. The Warrior-Definition of the Beautiful Ideal..
262
XII. The Warrior continued....
266
OF POETRY CONSIDERED IN ITS RELATIONS TO MAN-THE
SUBJECT CONTINUED.
The Passions.
CHAP. I. Christianity has changed the Relations of the Passions by chang-
ing the Basis of Vice and Virtue.......................................................................................................... 269
II. Impassioned Love-Dido......
272
III. Continuation of the preceding subject-The Phædra of Racine.. 275
IV. Continuation of the preceding subject-Julia d'Etange-Clemen-
tina..........
V. Continuation of the preceding subject-Eloisa.........
277
280
VI. Rural Love-The Cyclop and Galatea of Theocritus............... 285
VII. Continuation of the preceding subject-Paul and Virginia................ 287
VIII. The Christian Religion itself considered as a Passion............... 291
IX. Of the Unsettled State of the Passions....................... 296
OF THE MARVELLOUS; OR, OF POETRY IN ITS RELATIONS TO
SUPERNATURAL BEINGS.
CHAP. I. Mythology diminished the Grandeur of Nature-The Ancients
had no Descriptive Poetry properly so called....
II. Of Allegory.
.... 299
303
III. Historical part of Descriptive Poctry among the Moderns......... 305
IV. Have the Divinities of Paganism, in a poetical point of view, the
superiority over the Christian Divinities?
309
IX. Application of the Principles established in the preceding chap-
ters-Character of Satan....
X. Poetical Machinery-Venus in the woods of Carthage-Raphael
in the bowers of Eden...........
XI. Dream of Æneas-Dream of Athalie............
326
XII. Poetical Machinery continued-Journeys of Homer's gods-
Satan's expedition in quest of the New Creation........
330
XIII. The Christian Hell.
333
XIV. Parallel between Hell and Tartarus-Entrance of Avernus-
Dante's gate of Hell-Dido-Francisca d'Arimino-Tor-
ments of the damned......
334
XV. Purgatory......
338
XVI. Paradise
340
THE BIBLE AND HOMER.
CHAP. I. Of the Scriptures and their Excellence.........
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344
345
II. Of the three principal styles of Scripture...................................................................................
III. Parallel between the Bible and Homer-Terms of Comparison... 352
IV. Continuation of the Parallel between the Bible and Homer-
Examples..........
358
PART III.
THE FINE ARTS AND LITERATURE.
THE FINE ARTS.
CHAP. I. Music-Of the Influence of Christianity upon Music.
II. The Gregorian Chant......
370 L
372
IV. Christian Philosophers continued-Political Writers................ 407
V. Moralists-La Bruyère........
VI. Moralists continued-Pascal...................................................
408
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