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Chapter 7 JOAN'S VOICES AND VISIONS

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this), and finally that she was a saint. They do not prove any of these things; but the variety of the conclusions reached shew how little our matter-of-fact historians know about other people's

Saint Joan did. If Newton's imagination had been of the same vividly dramatic kind he might have seen the ghost of Pythagoras walk into the orchard and explain why the apples were falling. Such an illusion would have invalidated neither the theory of gravitation nor Newton's general sanity. What is more, the visionary method of making the discovery would not be a whit more miraculous than the normal method. The test of sanity is not the normality of the method but the reasonableness of the discovery. If Newton had been informed by Pythagoras that the moon was made of green cheese, then Newton would have been locked up. Gravitation, being a reasoned hypothesis which fitted remarkably well into the Copernican version of the observed ph

estion as between her and her comrades-in-arms. She gave this reason herself when she was pressed on the subject; and the fact that this entirely reasonable necessity came to her imagination first as an order from God delivered through the mouth of Saint Catherine does not prove that she was mad. The soundness of the order proves that she was unusually sane; but its form proves that her dramatic imagination played tricks with her senses. Her policy was also quite sound: nobody disputes

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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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