Publication
Philadelphia: Key & Biddle, 1833.
Physical description
iv, 187, 36 p.; 19 cm
Notes
Disbound, lacking boards; error in paging: p. 133 mis-numbered 331; publishers' advertisements, 36 p. at end.
Available in PDF here: https://archive.org/details/essayonspiritinfl00vill
CONTENTS
PART I.
Introductory essay, by Samuel Miller. [dated June 24, 1833; pp. 1-12]
Viller's Essay:
Sect. I. On the State of the Question.
Sect. II. On the Essence of Reformations in general.
Sect. III. On that of Luther in particular.
--Sketch of the Political, Religious, and Literary State of Europe at the Commencement of the sixteenth century.
----I. Politics.
----II. Religion.
----III. Knowledge.
The Reformation.
Sect. IV. Conjectures on what might have happened in Europe, if the Reformation had not taken place. Would the spirit of the Hierarchy have changed?
PART II. - Influence of the Reformation.
First Head. On the Political Situation of the States of Europe.
Sect. I. Of the Church in itself, and in its Political Relations.
Sect. II. On the principal Christian States.
First Point of View.
--Internal Situation of the States.
--I. Protestant States.
----Germany.
----Denmark.
----Sweden.
----Switzerland.
----Geneva.
----Holland.
----England.
----United States of America.
--II. States, the Governments of which did not embrace the Reform.
----Spain.
----France.
----Italy.
----Poland.
----Russia.
Second Point of View.
External and Respective Situation of the States of Europe with each other.
--System of Equilibrium.
----First Period, from 1520-1556.
----Second Period, from 1556 to 1603.
----Third Period, from 1603 to 1648.
Summary recapitulation of the Results of the Reformation with respect to Politics.
Second Head. On the Progress of Knowledge.
Sect. I. Results of the Moral Impulse given by the Reformation.
--With respect to Liberty of Thought.
--With respect to the Study of Religion--ancient Languages, Exegesis, ARchaeologia, History.
--With respect to Philosophy--to the Moral and Political Sciences.
--With respect to the Mathematical and Physical Sciences.
--With respect to the Belles Lettres, and to Modern Languages.
--With respect to the Fine Arts.
Sect. II. Results of the Events which have accompanied and followed the Reformation.
--Troubles and Wars in the Political World--Controversies in the Theological World.
--Secret Societies--Free Masons--Rosicrucians--Mystics--Illuminati.
--Jesuits, Jansenists, &c.
--Reflection on the Employment of the Ecclesiastical Possessions.
--Summary Recapitulation of the Results of the Reformation, as they relate to the Progress of Knowledge.
Conclusion.
--Dr. Maclaine's Note on a received Calumny against the Person and Views of Luther.
Available in PDF here: https://archive.org/details/essayonspiritinfl00vill
CONTENTS
PART I.
Introductory essay, by Samuel Miller. [dated June 24, 1833; pp. 1-12]
Viller's Essay:
Sect. I. On the State of the Question.
Sect. II. On the Essence of Reformations in general.
Sect. III. On that of Luther in particular.
--Sketch of the Political, Religious, and Literary State of Europe at the Commencement of the sixteenth century.
----I. Politics.
----II. Religion.
----III. Knowledge.
The Reformation.
Sect. IV. Conjectures on what might have happened in Europe, if the Reformation had not taken place. Would the spirit of the Hierarchy have changed?
PART II. - Influence of the Reformation.
First Head. On the Political Situation of the States of Europe.
Sect. I. Of the Church in itself, and in its Political Relations.
Sect. II. On the principal Christian States.
First Point of View.
--Internal Situation of the States.
--I. Protestant States.
----Germany.
----Denmark.
----Sweden.
----Switzerland.
----Geneva.
----Holland.
----England.
----United States of America.
--II. States, the Governments of which did not embrace the Reform.
----Spain.
----France.
----Italy.
----Poland.
----Russia.
Second Point of View.
External and Respective Situation of the States of Europe with each other.
--System of Equilibrium.
----First Period, from 1520-1556.
----Second Period, from 1556 to 1603.
----Third Period, from 1603 to 1648.
Summary recapitulation of the Results of the Reformation with respect to Politics.
Second Head. On the Progress of Knowledge.
Sect. I. Results of the Moral Impulse given by the Reformation.
--With respect to Liberty of Thought.
--With respect to the Study of Religion--ancient Languages, Exegesis, ARchaeologia, History.
--With respect to Philosophy--to the Moral and Political Sciences.
--With respect to the Mathematical and Physical Sciences.
--With respect to the Belles Lettres, and to Modern Languages.
--With respect to the Fine Arts.
Sect. II. Results of the Events which have accompanied and followed the Reformation.
--Troubles and Wars in the Political World--Controversies in the Theological World.
--Secret Societies--Free Masons--Rosicrucians--Mystics--Illuminati.
--Jesuits, Jansenists, &c.
--Reflection on the Employment of the Ecclesiastical Possessions.
--Summary Recapitulation of the Results of the Reformation, as they relate to the Progress of Knowledge.
Conclusion.
--Dr. Maclaine's Note on a received Calumny against the Person and Views of Luther.