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CONTENTS.
TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE
PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION.
Excess of our Adversaries
PAGE
xi
We ought to support Woman, spiritually and materially xxxi
We shall ever be her. Debtors
xxxviii
How the Unity of the Family Circle will be strengthened xlvii
Division of the Work
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PART I.
ON DIRECTION IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
CHAPTER I.
Religious Reaction in 1600
Influence of the Jesuits over Women and Children
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6
Savoy; the Vaudois; Violence and Gentleness
St. François de Sales
CHAPTER II.
St. François de Sales and Madame de Chantal
Visitation
Quietism
Results of Religious Direction
CHAPTER III.
Loneliness of Woman
Easy Devotion
Worldly Theology of the Jesuits
Women and Children advantageously made use of
Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648
Gallant Devotion
Religious Novels
Casuists
CHAPTER IV.
Convents. Convents in Paris
Convents contrasted; the Director
Dispute about the Direction of the Nuns
The Jesuits' triumph through Calumny
CHAPTER V.
Reaction of Morality
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Arnaud, 1643; Pascal, 1657. The Jesuits lose Ground
66
They gain over the King and the Pope
Discouragement of the Jesuits; their Corruption
They protect the Quietists
Desmarets. Morin burnt, 1663
Immorality of Quietism
Part played in it by the Director; hypocritical Austerity 127
Immoral Doctrine; approved by Rome, 1673
Molinos condemned at Rome, 1687. His Morals
His Morals conformable to his Doctrine.
Molinosists
La mère Agueda -
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130
Spanish
132
142
Sex. The Immaculate. The Sacred Heart
Marie Alacoque
The seventeenth Century is the Age of Equivocation
Chimerical Politics of the Jesuits. Father Colombière
England. Papist Conspiracy. First Altar of the Sa-
cred Heart
The Ruin of the Gallicans, Quietists, and Port Royal
Theology annihilated in the Eighteenth Century
Materiality of the Sacred Heart
Jesuitical Art
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PART II.
ON DIRECTION IN GENERAL, AND ESPECIALLY IN THE
NINETEENTH CENTURY.
Resemblances and Differences between the seventeenth
and nineteenth Centuries
Christian Art. It is we who have restored the Church
What the Church adds to the Power of the Priest
Confessional
Confession. Present Education of the Young Confessor
The Priest in the Middle Ages-1st, believed
2dly, was mortified ;—3dly, knew
4thly, interrogated less
The Casuists wrote for their Time
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