Description
I. The origin and pattern of democracy, 1789-1939: The birth of democracy -- Democracy as religion: Rousseau, Mazzini and Fichte --Democracy as religion: socialism and social-ism -- Democracy and law --Democracy and power: the party and the plebiscite -- II. The movement to catastrophe--nationalist democracy: Nationalism: the German volk -- The German volksstaat: Weimar and Hitler -- Nationalist Europe between the wars -- III. The idea of government by consent, pre-Christian and Christian: The moral state -- The ascent and descent of man -- The beginnings of Christian thought -- IV. The thirteen centuries of Augustine's Reigning Church, 496-1789: The beginnings of Christendom --Christendom: the practice of government -- Christendom: the philosophy of government --V. The age of Leviathan, 1789-1939: dualism and totalism: The nineteenth century: the remnants of the moral state -- The nineteenth century: the Christian revival -- The free world -- The choice.