Writing in answer to Guizot’s lectures on European civilisation, the Catalan priest and philosopher Jaime Balmes argues that the Catholic Church, not the Reformation, was the true source of Europe’s liberty, learning, humane law and public morals. He examines the causes and nature of Protestantism, its effect on the mind and the sciences, and the Church’s record on slavery, marriage and political power.
A major nineteenth-century work of Catholic apologetics and philosophy of history, frankly partisan in its aims. Download the free EPUB.