Guicciardini and his 'Golden maxims.'--Giordano Bruno and Galileo.--Jonathan Swift.--Junius and Francis.--Voltaire.--The old régime in France, and its fall.--The reign of terror and its secret police.--Through anarchy to Caesarism.--Napoleon the uncle.--Monsieur Guizot's 'Own time.'--Caesarism in France resurgent.--Napoleon the nephew.--The Napoleonic Augustan age in Paris.--The land question in France (1870)--Prevost-Paradol and the Franco-German war.--Bismark, Prussia, and panteutonism
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