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Bedford (search for this): chapter 2
extinguible qui se developpa depuis dans mon coeur contre les vexations qua éprouve le malheu reux peuple et contre ses oppress eurs. he derived an eloquence which went to the heart of Europe. He lit up the darkness of his times with flashes of sagacity; and spoke out the chap. II.} 1763. hidden truth, that the old social world was smitten with inevitable decay; that if there is life still on earth, it is the masses alone that live. The phrase is from Cousin. At the very time when Bedford and Choiseul were concluding the peace that was ratified in 1763, Rousseau, in a little essay on the social compact, published to the millions, that while true legislation has its source in divinity, the right to exercise sovereignty belongs inalienably to the people; but rushing eagerly to the doctrine which was to renew the world, he lost out of sight the personal and individual freedom of mind. The race as it goes forward, does not let fall one truth, but husbands the fruits of past wis
Au Roi (search for this): chapter 2
the people as little as he loved the Sorbonne. The complaisant courtier of sovereigns and ministers, he could even stand and wait for smiles at the toilet of the French king's mistress, or prostrate himself in flattery before the Semiramis of the north; willing to shut his eyes on the sorrows of the masses, if the great would but favor men of letters. He it was, and not an English poet, that praised George the First of England as a sage and a hero who ruled the universe by his virtues; Au Roi d'angleterre, George ler, en lui envoyant la tragedie d'oedipe. he could address Louis the chap. II.} 1763. Fifteenth as a Trajan; and when the French king took a prostitute for his associate, it was the aged Voltaire who extolled the monarch's mistress as an adorable Egeria. Voltaire à Madame la Comtesse du Barri, 20 Juin, 1773. The populace which has its hands to live by, such are the words, and such the sentiments of Voltaire, and as he believed of every landholder, the people has nei
Mirabeau (search for this): chapter 2
nopoly, and private freedom displace the regulating supervision of the state. Such was the liberal and generous Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, Book IV. ch. 9. system of the political economists who grouped themselves round the calm and unpretending Quesnai, startling the world by their axioms and tables of rustic economy, Marmontel: Livre cinquieme, Oeuvres i. 149, 150. as though a discovery had been made like that of the chap. II.} 1763. alphabet or of metallic coin. Marquis de Mirabeau, the elder. The new ideas fell, in France, on the fruitful genius of Turgot, who came forward in the virgin purity of philosophy to take part in active life. He was well-informed and virtuous, D'Alembert to Voltaire. most amiable, Voltaire to D'Alembert. and of a taste the most delicate and sure; a disinterested man, austere, yet holding it to be every man's business to solace those who suffer; wishing the effective accomplishment of good, not his own glory in performing it
Poussin (search for this): chapter 2
e, was occupied by a most ingenious people, formed of blended elements, and still bearing traces not only of the Celtic but of the German race, of the culture of Rome, and the hardihood of the Northmen. In the habit of analysis it excelled all nations; its delight in logical exactness and in precision of outline and expression of thought, gave the style alike to its highest efforts and to its ordinary manufactures; to its poetry and its prose; to the tragedies of Racine and the pictures of Poussin, as well as to its products of taste for daily use, and the adornment of its public squares with a careful regard to fitness and proportion. Its severe method in the pursuit of mathematical science corresponded to its nicety of workmanship in the structure of its ships of war, its canals, its bridges, its fortifications, and its public buildings. Light-hearted, frivolous and vain, no people were more ready to seize a new idea, and to pursue it with rigid dialectics to all its consequences
Vie De Turgot (search for this): chapter 2
e like that of the chap. II.} 1763. alphabet or of metallic coin. Marquis de Mirabeau, the elder. The new ideas fell, in France, on the fruitful genius of Turgot, who came forward in the virgin purity of philosophy to take part in active life. He was well-informed and virtuous, D'Alembert to Voltaire. most amiable, o. Motto of Condorcet: Vie de Turgot. In those days the people toiled and suffered, with scarce a hope of a better futurity even for their posterity. In life Turgot employed his powers and his fortune as a trust, to relieve the sorrows of the poor; but, under the system of uncontrolled individual freedom, the laborer, from the pressure of competition, might underbid his fellow laborer till his wages should be reduced to a bare support. Turgot sur la Formation et la Distribution des Richesses. § VI. Oenvres i. 10. Thus the skeptical philosopher, the erudite magistrate, the philanthropic founder of the science of political economy, proposed what the
Vision Babouc (search for this): chapter 2
s in the government of France among accidents and anecdotes. Least of all did he understand the tendency of his own untiring labors. He would have hated the thought of hastening a democratic revolution; and, in mocking the follies and vices of French institutions, he harbored no purpose of destroying them. Spare them, he chap. II.} 1763. would say, though they are not all of gold and diamonds. Take the world as it goes; if all is not good, all is passable. Le monde comme il va; Vision de Babouc. Thus skepticism proceeded unconsciously in the work of destruction, invalidating the past, yet unable to construct the future. For good government is not the creation of skepticism. Her garments are red with blood, and ruins are her delight; her despair may stimulate to voluptuousness and revenge; she never kindled with the disinterested love of man. The age could have learnt, from the school of Voltaire, to scoff at its past; but the studious and observing Montesquieu discove
Due Choiseul (search for this): chapter 2
qui se developpa depuis dans mon coeur contre les vexations qua éprouve le malheu reux peuple et contre ses oppress eurs. he derived an eloquence which went to the heart of Europe. He lit up the darkness of his times with flashes of sagacity; and spoke out the chap. II.} 1763. hidden truth, that the old social world was smitten with inevitable decay; that if there is life still on earth, it is the masses alone that live. The phrase is from Cousin. At the very time when Bedford and Choiseul were concluding the peace that was ratified in 1763, Rousseau, in a little essay on the social compact, published to the millions, that while true legislation has its source in divinity, the right to exercise sovereignty belongs inalienably to the people; but rushing eagerly to the doctrine which was to renew the world, he lost out of sight the personal and individual freedom of mind. The race as it goes forward, does not let fall one truth, but husbands the fruits of past wisdom for the g
Gienrales Gouvernement (search for this): chapter 2
man in society renounces no natural right, but remains the master of his person and his faculties, with the right to labor and to enjoy or exchange the fruits of his labor. Exportation has no danger, Quesnai: Maximes Generales du Gouvernement, XVI. for demand summons supplies; dearness need not appal, for high prices, quickening production, as manure does the soil, are their own certain, as well as only cure. So there should be no restriction on commerce F. Quesnai: Maximes Gienrales du Gouvernement, XXV. and industry, internal or external; competition should supersede monopoly, and private freedom displace the regulating supervision of the state. Such was the liberal and generous Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, Book IV. ch. 9. system of the political economists who grouped themselves round the calm and unpretending Quesnai, startling the world by their axioms and tables of rustic economy, Marmontel: Livre cinquieme, Oeuvres i. 149, 150. as though a discovery had b
Jean Jacques Rousseau (search for this): chapter 2
and a new class gained a voice in the world of published thought. With Jean Jacques Rousseau truth was no more to employ the discreet insinuations of academicians; n man's spiritual nature, and solacing the ills of life by trust in God See Rousseau to Voltaire.— he breathed the spirit of revolution into words of flame. Fearlh he had suffered, from the wrongs of the down-trodden which he had shared, Rousseau: Confessions; Partie I., livre IV. Il me fit entendre qu'il cachoit son vin á when Bedford and Choiseul were concluding the peace that was ratified in 1763, Rousseau, in a little essay on the social compact, published to the millions, that whilall the teachers who had asserted freedom for the reason of each separate man. Rousseau claimed power for the public mind over the mind of each member of the state, wits opinions a creed, and of punishing every dissenter with exile or death; Rousseau: Du Contrat Social, livre IV. chap. VIII. Il y a done une profession de foi p
Fenelon (search for this): chapter 2
e so ready to renounce pleasure, and risk life for a caprice, or sacrifice it for glory. Self-indulgent, they abounded in offices of charity. Often exhibiting the most heartless egoism, they were also easily inflamed, with a most generous enthusiasm. Seemingly lost in profligate sensuality, they were yet capable of contemplative asceticism. To the superficial observer, they were a nation of atheists; and yet they preserved the traditions of their own Bossuet and Calvin, of Descartes and Fenelon. In this most polished and cultivated land,—whose government had just been driven out from North America, whose remaining colonies collectively had but about seventy thousand white persons, whose commerce with the New World could only be a consequence of American Independence,—two opposite powers competed for supremacy; on the one side monarchy, claiming to be absolute; on the other, free thought, which was becoming the mistress of the world. Absolute power met barriers on every side.
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