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Stranica 15 - But what experience and history teach is this — that peoples and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. Each period is involved in such peculiar circumstances, exhibits a condition of things so strictly idiosyncratic, that its conduct must be regulated by considerations connected with itself, and itself alone. Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no hope. It is useless to revert to similar circumstances in the Past....
Stranica 15 - Statesmen, N-ations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach ' is this, — that peoples and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from / it.
Stranica 15 - Europe the pragmatic method, that " rulers, statesmen, and nations are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this — that peoples and governments never have learned any thing from history or acted on principles deduced from it.
Stranica 5 - It has ever proved ruinous, and Austria, France, and Spain have furnished us with commentaries. The other distinctive fact is the recuperative energy of modern states. Ancient states did not possess it. Once declining, they declined with increasing rapidity until their ruin was complete. The parabola of a projectile might be called the symbol of ancient leading states — a curve, which slowly rises, reaches its maximum and precipitately descends, not to rise again, while the line of modern civilization,...
Stranica 5 - ... with commentaries. The other distinctive fact is the recuperative energy of modern states. Ancient states did not possess it. Once declining, they declined with increasing rapidity until their ruin was complete. The parabola of a projectile might be called the symbol of ancient leading states — a curve, which slowly rises, reaches its maximum and precipitately descends, not to rise again, while the line of modern civilization, power, and even freedom, resembles, in several cases, those undulating...
Stranica 30 - ... could say what he did say without being considered by the French unpatriotic. An American citizen could not have made similar remarks of the Americans without raising a storm of general indignation. No American student of political philosophy or history should be without that little volume, The Old Regime and the Revolution, by Alexis De Tocqueville, translated by John Bonner, New York, 1856.
Stranica 25 - ... nor do I belong to the modern optimists who complacently see nothing but advancement in our dubious age. I neither believe the region of the state to resemble the Olympus with its suspended ethics; nor do I belong to the retrospective school. I differ with those who follow Sismondi, a justly honored name, in the opinion that "every day must convince us more that the ancients understood liberty and the conditions of free government infinitely better than we do.
Stranica 14 - I am apt, however, to entertain a suspicion, that the world is still too young to fix many general truths in politics, which will remain true to the latest posterity. We have not as yet had experience of three thousand years ; so that not only the art of reasoning is still imperfect in this science, as in all others, but we even want sufficient materials upon which we can reason.
Stranica 5 - Grecian chariot. The idea of one leading nation, or of a " universal monarchy," has been revived, indeed, at several modern periods, and is even now proclaimed by those who know least of liberty, but it is an anachronism, barren in every thing except mischief, and always gotten up, in recent times, to subserve ambition or national conceit.