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<dl><dd>TABLE OF CONTENTS</dd></dl><p>Preface 1 
AIRELLES. 
Klukva Podsnejnaia 3 
Airelles 4 
On Music 34 
On the Firmament 35 
On Nature 36 
On Courtesy 38
THOUGHTS. 
CHAPTER I. 
On Herself. — On God. — On the Soul. — On the Intellect 41 
CHAPTER II. 
On the World. — On the Affections. — On Different Ages. — On Politics 57 
Pages selected from an Album 82 
On the Reproach of Exclusiveness as incurred by the Catholic Church 84 
On the Church and her Form 87 
ON OLD AGE. 
Compiler’s Dedication 92 
Nunc Dimittis 130 
Christianity, Progress, and Civilization 131 
ON RESIGNATION. 
Preface 142 
CHAPTER I. 
On Resignation apart from Christianity  144 
CHAPTER II. 
The Justice and Propriety of Resignation. — Its Different Degrees 162 
CHAPTER III. 
On the Advantages of Submission 174 
CHAPTER IV. 
On Resignation to so-called Irreparable Ills 186 
CHAPTER V. 
On The Difficulty Of Resignation To Sorrows Caused By Our Fellow-Beings 198 
CHAPTER VI. 
How, in the World and out of it, Every Thing and Every Being, except Man, accomplishes God’s Will, and keeps in the Place assigned it 211 
CHAPTER VII. 
That there is an Excess of Grief which belies the Words of Submission 223 
CHAPTER VIII. 
Is Resignation Compatible With Prayer, That God Will Remove The Evil Which Afflicts Or Threatens Us? 241 
Conclusion 251 
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<dl><dd>Swetchine, Madame (Anne-Sophie), 1782-1857</dd>
<dd>Falloux du Coudray, Alfred-Frédéric-Pierre, comte de, 1811-1886</dd>
<dd>Preston, H. W. (Harriet Waters), 1836-1911</dd></dl></div>
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