VICOMTE DE See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
LOUIS See also:GABRIEL AMBROISE See also:BONALD (1754-1840)
, See also:French philosopher and politician, was See also:born at Le Monna, near See also:Millau in See also:Aveyron, on the and of See also:October 1754
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Disliking the principles of the Revolution, he emigrated in 1791, joined the See also:army of the See also:prince of See also:Conde, and soon afterwards settled at See also:Heidelberg
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There he wrote his first important See also:work, the highly conservative Theorie du pouvoir politique et religieux (3 vols., 1796; new ed., See also:Paris, 1854, 2 vols.), which was condemned by the See also:Directory
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Returning to See also:France he found himself an See also:object of suspicion, and was obliged to live in retirement
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In 1806 he was associated with See also:Chateaubriand and Fievee in the conduct of the Mercure de France, and two years later was appointed councillor of the Imperial University which he had often attacked
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After the restoration he was a member of the See also:council of public instruction, and from 1815 to 1822 sat in the chamber as See also:deputy
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His speeches were on the extreme conservative See also:side; he even advocated a See also:literary censorship
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In 1822 he was made See also:minister of See also:state, and presided over the See also:censor-See also:ship See also:commission
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In the following See also:year he was made a peer, a dignity which he lost through refusing to take the See also:oath in 1830
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From 1816 he had been a member of the See also:Academy
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He took no See also:part in public affairs after 1830, but retired to his seat at Le Monna, where he died on the 23rd of See also:November 1840
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See also:Bonald was one of the leading writers of the theocratic or traditionalist school, which included de See also:Maistre, See also:Lamennais, See also:Ballanche and d'Eckstein
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His writings are mainly on social and See also:political See also:philosophy, and are based ultimately on one See also:great principle, the divine origin of See also:language
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In his own words, " L'homme pense sa See also:parole avant de parler sa pensee;'; the first language contained the essence of all truth
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From this he deduces the existence of See also:God, the divine origin and consequent supreme authority of the See also:Holy Scriptures, and the See also:infallibility of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church
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While this thought lies at the See also:root of all his speculations there is a See also:formula of See also:constant application
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All relations may be stated as the triad of cause, means and effect, which he See also:sees repeated throughout nature
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Thus, in the universe, he finds the first cause as mover, See also:movement as the means, and bodies as the result; in the state, See also:power as the cause, ministers as the means, and subjects as the effects; in the See also:family, the same relation is exemplified by See also:father, See also:mother and See also:children
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These three terms See also:bear specific relations to one another; the first is to the second as the second to the third
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Thus, in the great triad of the religious See also:world—God, the Mediator, and See also:Man—God is to the God-Man as the God-Man is to Man
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On this basis he constructed a See also:system of political See also:absolutism which lacks two things only:—well-grounded premisses instead of baseless hypotheses, and the acquiescence of those who were to be subjected to it
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Bonald's See also:style is remarkably See also:fine; ornate, but pure and vigorous
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Many fruitful thoughts are scattered among his See also:works, but his system scarcely deserves the name of a philosophy
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In abstract thought he was a See also:mere See also:dilettante, and his strength
See also:lay in the vigour and sincerity of his statements rather than in cogency of reasoning
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He had four sons
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Of these, See also:VICTOR DE BONALD (1780–1871) followed his father in his See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile, was See also:rector of the academy of See also:Montpellier after the restoration, but lost his See also:post during the See also:Hundred Days
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Regaining it at the second restoration, he resigned finally in 183o
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He wrote See also:Des vrais principes opposes aux erreurs du XIXe siecle (1833), Molise et See also:les geologues modernes (1835), and a See also:life of his father
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Lours JACQUES See also:MAURICE (1787—1870), See also:cardinal (1841), was condemned by the council of state for a See also:pastoral See also:letter attacking See also:Dupin the See also:elder's See also:Manuel de See also:droit ecclesiaslique
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In 1848 he held a memorial service " for those who See also:fell gloriously in See also:defence of See also:civil and religious See also:liberty." In 1851 he nevertheless advocated in the See also:senate the See also:maintenance of the temporal power of See also:Rome by force of arms
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See also:HENRI (d
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1846) was a contributor to legitimist See also:journals; and RENE was See also:interim See also:prefect of Aveyron in 1817
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Besides the Theorie above mentioned, the vicomte de Bonald published Essai analytique sur les lois naturelles de l'ordre social (1800); Legislation See also:primitive (1802); Du See also:divorce considers au XIX' siecle (18oi); Recherches philosophiques sur les premiers objets de connaissances morales (2 vols., 1818) ; Melanges litteraires et politiques, demonstration philosophique du Principe constitutif de la societe (1819, 1852)
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The first collected edition appeared in 12 vols., 1817–1819; the latest is that of the See also:Abbe See also:Migne (3 vols., 1859)
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See See also:Notice sur M. le Vicomte de Bonald (1841, ed
.
See also:Avignon, 1853), (by his son Victor); See also:Damiron, Phil. en France au XIXe siecle; Windelband, See also:History of Philosophy (trans
.
J
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Tufts, 1893) ; E
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See also:Faguet in Rev. des deux mondes (See also:April 15, 1889)
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