Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Orestes Brownson's American Search for the Truth 1
Part I Union and Progress
1 An Essay on the Progress of Truth 39
2 Free Enquirers 71
3 Memoir of Saint-Simon 75
4 An Address Delivered at Dedham on the Fifty-Eighth Anniversary of American Independence, July 4, 1834 85
5 New Views of Christianity, Society, and the Church 99
6 Emerson's Divinity School Address 151
7 The Laboring Classes 162
Part II The Recovery of Ordered Liberty
8 The Mediatorial Life of Jesus 193
9 Demagoguism 224
10 Catholicity Necessary to Sustain Popular Liberty 241
11 Authority and Liberty 256
12 The Works of Daniel Webster 281
13 Schools of Philosophy 317
14 Liberalism and Socialism 344
15 Civil and Religious Freedom 367
16 Liberalism and Progress 399
Part III Freedom and Communion
17 The American Republic 419
18 The Democratic Principle 496
Notes 517