CONTENTS 



Letter of Father Hyacinthe to the Translator . . . xi 

 Biographical Sketch of Father Hyacinthe . . , xv 

 Letter to the General of the Order of Barefooted Car- 

 melites xxxix 



Speech before the Permanent International Peace 



League, Paris, July loth, 1869 .... i 



Reports of the Notre Dame Conferences of 1867, on 

 Civil Society in its Relations with Christianity : 

 L Civil Society in its Relations with Domestic Society 17 

 n. Sovereignty . . . . . . . .40 



in. Religion in the Life of Nations .... 56 



IV. The Higher Intercourse between Nations . . 75 



V. War 90 



VL Civilization 107 



Sermon on the occasion of the Profession of Catholic 

 Faith, and the First Communion, of a converted 

 Protestant American Lady . . . .123 



Sermon on behalf of the Victims of the South American 



Earthquake 139 



Letter prefixed to "The Select Works of Charles 



Loyson" . . . . . . . .157 



Appendix. — Men and Parties in the Catholic Church 

 in France just before the CEcumenical Council, 

 1869 165 



