The French Revolution and the English Novel

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G. P. Putnam's sons, 1915 - 337 pages
 

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Page 7 - At a certain stage of their development, the material forces of production in society come in conflict with the existing relations of production, or — what is but a legal expression for the same thing — with the property relations within which they had been at work before. From forms of development of the forces of production these relations turn into their fetters. Then comes the period of social revolution. With the change of the economic foundation the entire immense superstructure is more...
Page 8 - No social order ever disappears before all the productive forces for which there is room in it have been developed; and new higher relations of production never appear before the material conditions of their existence have matured in the womb of the old society itself.
Page 291 - They, by a strange frenzy driven, fight for power, for plunder, and extended rule: we, for our country, our altars, and our homes. They follow an adventurer whom they fear, and obey a power which they hate : we serve a monarch whom we love —a God whom we adore.
Page 7 - Just as our opinion of an individual is not based on what he thinks of himself, so can we not judge of such a period of transformation by its own consciousness; on the contrary, this consciousness must be explained rather from the contradictions of material life, from the existing conflict between the social forces of production and the relations of production.
Page 133 - Midst others of less note, came one frail Form, A phantom among men; companionless As the last cloud of an expiring storm Whose thunder is its knell...
Page 131 - Liberty slowly and reverentially to its tomb : and if some glorious Phantom should appear, and make its throne of broken swords and sceptres and the royal crowns trampled in the dust, let us say that the Spirit of Liberty has arisen from its grave and left all that was gross and mortal there, and kneel down and worship it as our Queen.
Page 130 - Cartwright's arguments to be unanswerable; abstractedly it is the right of every human being to have a share in the government. But Mr. Paine's arguments are also unanswerable; a pure republic may be shown, by inferences the most obvious and irresistible, to be that system of social order the fittest to produce the happiness and promote the genuine eminence of man.
Page 92 - ... a general review of the modes of domestic and unrecorded despotism, by which man becomes the destroyer of man.
Page 96 - Thank God, with us no man can be punished^ without a crime ! ' Unthinking wretch ! is that a country of liberty where thousands languish in dungeons and ., fetters ? Go, go, ignorant fool ! and visit the scenes of our prisons ! witness their unwholesomeness, their filth, the tyranny of their governors, the misery of their in1 See Howard on Prisons. mates ! After that show me the man shameless enough to triumph, and say England has no Bastille...
Page 37 - If the reason be asked of that obedience, which we are bound to pay to government, I readily answer, because society could not otherwise subsist: And this answer is clear and intelligible to all mankind.

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