Preface 1. Days of belief 2. From Christianity to Positivism 3. Experiences of secularism 4. Northern secularism 5. The early history of Positivism 6. Preaching Positivism 7. My first church 8. Positivist developments 9. My second church 10. Some Positivist experiments 11. The later Positivism 12. Order and disorder 13. Positivising Catholicism 14. In the Catholic church 15. Labour and peace 16. After-thoughts Index