The general trend of his lectures was the philosophy of history as it bears on questions of social reform.

At bottom his theories were Saint-Simonism, the object being the amelioration of the condition of the most numerous classes of society in the speediest manner.

_This was the essence to our kind of Democracy._ And Dr.Brownson undertook in these lectures to bring to bear in favor of our purpose the life-lessons of the providential men of human history.

Of course, the life and teachings of our Saviour Jesus Christ were brought into use, and the upshot of the lecturer's thesis was that Christ was the big Democrat and the Gospel was the true Democratic platform! "We interpreted Christianity as altogether a social institution, its social side entirely overlapping and hiding the religious.

Dr.
Brownson set out to make, and did make, a powerful presentation of our Lord as the representative of the Democratic side of civilization.