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Chapter 4 WAS JOAN INNOCENT OR GUILTY

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n Joan's case has to be faced. It was decided against her by her contemporaries after a very careful and conscientious trial; and the reversal of the

ic), very kindly, and, though a brave and hardy soldier, unable to endure loose language or licentious conduct. She went to the stake without a stain on her character except the overweening presumption, the superbity as they called it, that led her thither. It would therefore be waste of time now to prove that the Joan of the first part of the Elizabethan chronicle play of Henry VI (supposed to have been tinkered by Shakespear) grossly libels her in its concluding scenes in deference to Jingo patriotism. The mud that was thrown at her has dropped off by this time so completely that there is no need for any modern writer to wash up after it. What is far more difficult to get rid of is the mud that is being thrown at her judges, and the whitewash which disfigures her beyond recogn

upernatural, is eligible for canonization. If a historian is an Anti-Feminist, and does not believe women to be capable of genius in the traditional masculine departments, he will never make anything of Joan, whose genius was turned to practical account mainly in soldiering and politics. If he is Rationalist enough to deny that saints exist, and to hold that new ideas cannot come otherwise than by conscious ratiocination, he will never catch Joan's liken

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Contents

Chapter 1 JOAN THE ORIGINAL AND PRESUMPTUOUS Chapter 2 JOAN AND SOCRATES Chapter 3 CONTRAST WITH NAPOLEON Chapter 4 WAS JOAN INNOCENT OR GUILTY Chapter 5 JOAN'S GOOD LOOKS Chapter 6 JOAN'S SOCIAL POSITION Chapter 7 JOAN'S VOICES AND VISIONS Chapter 8 THE EVOLUTIONARY APPETITE Chapter 9 THE MERE ICONOGRAPHY DOES NOT MATTER Chapter 10 THE MODERN EDUCATION WHICH JOAN ESCAPED Chapter 11 FAILURES OF THE VOICES
Chapter 12 JOAN A GALTONIC VISUALIZER
Chapter 13 JOAN'S MANLINESS AND MILITARISM
Chapter 14 WAS JOAN SUICIDAL
Chapter 15 JOAN SUMMED UP
Chapter 16 JOAN'S IMMATURITY AND IGNORANCE
Chapter 17 THE MAID IN LITERATURE
Chapter 18 PROTESTANT MISUNDERSTANDINGS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
Chapter 19 COMPARATIVE FAIRNESS OF JOAN'S TRIAL
Chapter 20 JOAN NOT TRIED AS A POLITICAL OFFENDER
Chapter 21 THE CHURCH UNCOMPROMISED BY ITS AMENDS
Chapter 22 CRUELTY, MODERN AND MEDIEVAL
Chapter 23 CATHOLIC ANTI-CLERICALISM
Chapter 24 CATHOLICISM NOT YET CATHOLIC ENOUGH
Chapter 25 THE LAW OF CHANGE IS THE LAW OF GOD
Chapter 26 CREDULITY, MODERN AND MEDIEVAL
Chapter 27 TOLERATION, MODERN AND MEDIEVAL
Chapter 28 VARIABILITY OP TOLERATION
Chapter 29 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN GENIUS AND DISCIPLINE
Chapter 30 JOAN AS THEOCRAT
Chapter 31 UNBROKEN SUCCESS ESSENTIAL IN THEOCRACY
Chapter 32 MODERN DISTORTIONS OF JOAN'S HISTORY
Chapter 33 HISTORY ALWAYS OUT OF DATE
Chapter 34 THE REAL JOAN NOT MARVELLOUS ENOUGH FOR US
Chapter 35 THE STAGE LIMITS OF HISTORICAL REPRESENTATION
Chapter 36 A VOID IN THE ELIZABETHAN DRAMA
Chapter 37 TRAGEDY, NOT MELODRAMA
Chapter 38 THE INEVITABLE FLATTERIES OF TRAGEDY
Chapter 39 SOME WELL-MEANT PROPOSALS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE PLAY
Chapter 40 THE EPILOGUE
Chapter 41 TO THE CRITICS, LEST THEY SHOULD FEEL IGNORED
Chapter 42 AYOT ST LAWRENCE
Chapter 43 SCENE II
Chapter 44 SCENE III
Chapter 45 SCENE IV
Chapter 46 SCENE V
Chapter 47 SCENE VI
Chapter 48 EPILOGUE
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