Religious Re-action in 1600--Influence of the Jesuits over Women and Children--Savoy; the Vaudois; Violence and Gentleness--St. François de Sales
St. François de Sales and Madame de Chantal--Visitation--Quietism--Results of Religious Direction
Loneliness of Woman--Easy Devotion--Worldly Theology of the Jesuits--Women and Children advantageously made use of--Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648--Gallant Devotion--Religious Novels--Casuists
Convents--Convents in Paris--Convents contrasted; the Director--Dispute about the Direction of the Nuns--The Jesuits Triumph through Calumny
Re-action of Morality--Arnaud, 1643; Pascal, 1657--The Jesuits lose Ground--They gain over the King and the Pope--Discouragement of the Jesuits; their Corruption--They Protect the Quietists--Desmarets--Morin burnt, 1663--Immorality of Quietism
Continuation of Moral Re-action--_Tartuffe_, 1664--Real Tartuffes--Why Tartuffe is not a Quietist
Apparition of Molinos, 1675--His Success at Rome--French Quietists--Madame Guyon and her Director--"The Torrents"--Mystic Death--Do we return from it?
Fenelon as Director--His Quietism--"Maxims of Saints," 1697--Fenelon and Madame de la Maisonfort
Bossuet as Director--Bossuet and Sister Cornuau--Bossuet's Imprudence--He is a Quietist in Practice--Devout Direction inclines to Quietism--Moral Paralysis
Molinos' "Guide"--Part Played in it by the Director; Hypocritical Austerity--Immoral Doctrine; Approved by Rome, 1675--Molinos Condemned at Rome, 1687--His Morals--His Morals Conformable to his Doctrine--Spanish Molinosists--Mother Agueda
No more Systems: an Emblem--The Heart--Sex--The Immaculate--The Sacred Heart--Mario Alacoque--The Seventeenth Century is the Age of Equivocation--Chimerical Politics of the Jesuits--Father Colombière--England--Papist Conspiracy--First Altar of the Sacred Heart--The Ruin of the Galileans, Quietists, and Port-Royal--Theology annihilated in the Eighteenth Century--Materiality of the Sacred Heart--Jesuitical Art
ON DIRECTION IN GENERAL, AND ESPECIALLY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
Resemblances and Differences between the seventeenth and nineteenth Centuries--Christian Art--It is we who have restored the Church--What the Church adds to the Power of the Priest--The Confessional