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The Modern Regime, Volume 2 ^M The Origins of Contemporary
France, Volume 6 ^M by Hippolyte A. Taine^M

BOOK FIFTH. The Church.

CHAPTER I
. MORAL INSTITUTIONS
CHAPTER II
.
CHAPTER III
BOOK SIXTH. Public instruction.
CHAPTER I
.
CHAPTER II
.
CHAPTER III
. Evolution between 1814 and 1890.
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After Taine's death in March 1893, his nephew André Chevrillon
arranged his last manuscripts on the Church and Education for
publication and wrote the following introduction which also tells us
much about Taine and his works
PREFACE By André Chevrillon.
"To treat of the Church, the School, and the Family, describe the

modern milieu and note the facilities and obstacles which a society like
our own encounters in this milieu, such was the program of the last[1]
section of the "Origins of Contemporary France." The preceding
volume is a continuation of the first part of this program; after the
commune and the department, after local societies, the author was to
study moral and intellectual bodies in France as organized by Napoleon.
This study completed, this last step taken, he was about to reach the
summit. He was about to view France as a whole, to comprehend it no
longer through a detail of its organs, in a state of formation, but its
actual existence; no longer isolated, but plunged, along with other
occidental nations, into the modern milieu, experiencing with them the
effects of one general cause which changed the physical and
intellectual condition of men; which dissolved sentiments formerly
grouping them together, more or less capable at length of adapting
themselves to new circumstances and of organizing according to a new
type suited to the coming age that now opens before us.
Only a part of this last volume was written, that which relates to the
Church and to public instruction. Death intervened and suddenly
arrested the pen. M. Taine, at this moment, was about completing his
analysis of subordinate societies in France. - For those who have
followed him thus far it is already clear that the great defect of the
French community is the fragmentation of the individuals, who isolated,
dwindling, and prostrate at the feet of the all-powerful State, who, due
to remote historical causes, and yet more so by modern legislation,
have been made incapable of "spontaneously grouping around a
common interest." Very probably - and of this we may judge by two
sketches of a plan, undoubtedly provisional,