An Essay on the Influence of Authority Matters of OpinionBoD – Books on Demand, 2023 M10 21 - 352 pages Reprint of the original, first published in 1875. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost. |
Contents
SECTION | 1 |
Attempts which have been made to bring about an agreement in Chris | 7 |
CHAPTER III | 15 |
Norrs to Chapter VII | 31 |
883 | 52 |
Differences of opinion between Roman Catholics and Protestants as | 60 |
No Christian church or sect can lay claim to a paramount authority | 66 |
NOTES to Chapter IV | 72 |
The representative system of government is founded on a compromise | 191 |
The state cannot effectually promote religious truth by any of these | 212 |
stitutions | 224 |
Reviews and literary journals Transactions of learned societies | 245 |
APPENDIX | 279 |
ON THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN ARISTOCRACY AND DEMOCRACY AND ON | 291 |
Elements of credibility in a witness to a fact Distinction between | 1 |
that a person must have studied the subject care | 7 |
Importance of numerical preponderance as a fact | 126 |
CHAPTER VII | 132 |
Especially through the system of political representation | 183 |
19 | 19 |
80 | 36 |
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