Excerpt from Essai sur la Conscience Et sur la Liberte Religieuse: Ou Examen du Rapport Presente au Grand Conseil du Canton de Vaud, par le Conseil d'Etat, le 30 Mai 1829
Je vais livrer a mes lecteurs la partie de ce Rap port qui me concerne. Ma reponse suivra. Et comme je suis inculpe, dans ce morceau sous deux points de vue; comme on m'y reproche a la fois des delits et de mauvaises doctrines j'appellerai successive ment sur ces deux objets l'attention de mes lec teurs. La premiere partie de ce travail est ma Defime, que je presente a mes concitoyens abso lument telle que je l'avais preparee pour mes juges.
La seconde est une Discussion de doctrines, ou un examen de celles du Rapport et des miennes.
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Alexandre Vinet was born near Lausanne in Switzerland. Educated for the Protestant ministry, he was ordained in 1819, when already teacher of the French language and literature in the gymnasium at Basel; and throughout his life he was as much a critic as a theologian. His literary criticism brought him into contact with Augustin Sainte-Beuve, for whom he obtained an invitation to lecture at Lausanne, which led to his famous work on Port-Royal.
As a theologian Vinet gave a fresh impulse to Protestant theology, especially in French-speaking lands, but also in England and elsewhere. His philosophy relied strongly on conscience, defined as that by which man stands in direct personal relation with God as moral sovereign, and the seat of a moral individuality which nothing can rightly infringe.
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