ABSTRACT
The liberal school is placed between two seas, whose constantly advancing waves will finally overwhelm it, between socialism and Catholicism. It cannot admit the constituent sovereignty of the people without becoming democratic, socialistic, and atheistic, nor admit the actual sovereignty of God without becoming monarchical and Catholic. The socialist schools possess great advantages over the liberal school, precisely because they approach directly all great problems and questions, and always give a peremptory and decisive solution. The strength of socialism consists in its being a system of theology, and it is destructive only because it is a satanic theology. All the socialist schools are, in a philosophical point of view, rationalistic; under a political aspect, atheistical. They resemble the liberal school in their elements of rationalism, and differ from this school in so far as they are atheistical and republican. The socialists appear bold in their negations only when people compare them with the liberalists.
