[PDF] A History Of Modern Liberty Vol 2 Classic Reprint eBook

Author : James Mackinnon
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 28,67 MB
Release : 2018-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780364752821

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Excerpt from A History of Modern Liberty, Vol. 2 The Secularist in Politics - Rationality Applied to Politics - Machiavelli Champion of the Modern Spirit - Influence of the Spirit of the Age - Machiavelli's Narrowness - The People as a Factor in Government - Its Capacity for Public Affairs - Admiration of Popular Govern ment - Machiavelli as Moralist - Republican Government a Failure Where Florence has Erred - No Idea of Progress - Machiavelli and More - More the Victim of Arbitrary Government - Contemporary Kings and Courtiers Utopia the Antithesis of The Prince Arbitrary Methods of Kings - Radical Reforms Demanded - Utopia a Democratic State - More the Champion of Religious Liberty - An Apostle of Modern Liberty - Sources of Chapter II. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : James MacKinnon
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Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,17 MB
Release : 2015-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781330832332

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Excerpt from A History of Modern Liberty, Vol. 1 I Purpose in this work to trace the history of liberty throughout is called the modern use. Liberty throughout what is called the modern age. Liberty in the general sense I take to be the free development of man, subject of course to the limits of such development inseparable from human life. Absolute liberty is the prerogative of no mortal. Man is subject to the conditions of his being. He derives his existence from another. He is dependent on others as well as himself for its maintenance. Its span is short and uncertain at the best. Looking at human life merely from the material standpoint, man's insufficiency, dependence are patent enough. They are equally patent from the spiritual point of view. The human spirit is instinctively conscious of subjection to an intelligence infinitely superior to it, and this feeling of subjection is expressed in one form or another in its religious beliefs and usages. Again, as a political and social unit, the individual is conscious of restraints as well as rights. In whatever relation we regard him - material, moral, political, social - limitation, subjection is the law of his life. So much granted as a matter of course, it is nevertheless true that liberty, within certain limits, is also a law of human life. The human will is free, to a certain extent at least, as is evidenced by our consciousness of the fact, and exemplified in countless acts of volition. A great part of my experience is a matter of my own volition, for which I must hold myself, as well as circumstances, responsible. Man is not a mere machine driven by the motor force of necessity. He has, to a certain extent, his destiny in his own hands. If it were not so, to speak of liberty, far less to attempt to write a history of it, would be an utter delusion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Samuel Eliot
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Page : 466 pages
File Size : 22,73 MB
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781332600427

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Excerpt from History of Liberty, Vol. 2 of 2: The Early Christians The Northern Races: Occupying it Their Intellectual Pursuits Their Spiritual Pursuits: the Frank and the Sueve. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Samuel Eliot
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 29,91 MB
Release : 2017-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780332611792

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Excerpt from History of Liberty, Vol. 1 of 2 The Old liberty was the liberty of rulers. As such it was remembered. As such it was the object of longings and strivings on the part of those by whom, or by whose ancestors, it had once been pos sessed. The loss which they felt most keenly was that of dominion. The gain of dominion was that for which they struggled most resolutely. They thought themselves struggling for liberty. They thought themselves lamenting for liberty. But it was because liberty and dominion had been one and the same throughout the ancient ages. Liberty had belonged to none but rulers. To recover or to preserve such a liberty as this, was not the want of mankind. The ruling classes of the West and of the East constituted but a small portion of the generations then existing. Not one man out of a thousand, out of a million, but was a subject in one or in another degree. The great need was of a liberty which should belong to these multitudinous Subjects as well as to their scattered rulers. The liberty of the ruler had failed. The liberty of the subject was the liberty now required. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : George Lawrence Scherger
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Page : 308 pages
File Size : 28,49 MB
Release : 2015-07-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781331096986

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Excerpt from The Evolution of Modern Liberty The study of political theories seems to be attracting considerable attention at present, a number of able writers, such as Dunning, Willoughby, Merriam. Osgood, and others having recently made contributions to this branch of research. Political theories are not only of theoretical interest, but have at times greatly influenced historical development. This is true in marked degree of those ideas whose genesis is traced in the following pages. They have been put forward repeatedly as a protest against oppression and arbitrary power. Their greatest influence, however, has made itself felt since the American Revolution. They have in large measure contributed to make our American political institutions what they are to-day. They are often spoken of as American principles. Though they did not originate in this country, they were here for the first time incorporated in the political programme of a great nation, and have been more completely realized here than in any other country. The following dissertation was begun at the suggestion of Professor Max Lenz of the University of Berlin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Samuel Eliot
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 48,65 MB
Release : 2018-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780656242368

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Excerpt from The Liberty of Rome, Vol. 2 of 2: A History, With an Historical Account of the Liberty of Ancient Nations Spurius Ligustinus the Roman Soldier Discipline and Honour of the Soldier Sketch of Foreign Wars q. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Poultney Bigelow
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 36,10 MB
Release : 2017-12-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780484850193

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Excerpt from History of the German Struggle for Liberty, Vol. 2 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Francis Lieber
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 30,27 MB
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780483947214

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Excerpt from On Civil Liberty and Self-Government, Vol. 2 of 2 It correctly stated that an on'er was made to me to remain in that country and govern it. The impression which generally prevails. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Samuel Eliot
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,73 MB
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780364125632

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Excerpt from History of Liberty Of, Vol. 1 of 2 Cause in which the Romans triumphed Their Powers depending on it Signs of Intellectual Powers Inquiries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.