The History and Theory of RevolutionsW.S. & A. Martien, 1862 - 35 Seiten |
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606 CHESTNUT STREET aggravated evils ALFRED MARTIEN American Revolution amid ancient attempt attendant circumstances begets believe bound caprice CHAMBERSBURG Charles Hodge Christian circumstances civil troubles constitutional continent D. D. Price decay defined despot doctrine Dutch Republic earth England essential fact feudal France French Revolution goading grievances highest civilization HISTORY AND THEORY history of revolutions human incubus insurrection JOSEPH CLARK justified justly large standing armies long and patiently lution mankind ment monarchical movement nature necessity oppressed organic passion perhaps perpetual Price 15 cents PRINCETON REVIEW privileges provisional arrangement purpose radical Reign of Terror relation between labour republican REVIEW for April revo Revolution of 1792 right of revolution rights of conscience royal prerogative Saxon race scarcely slavery society South Southern brethren Southern leaders Southern rebellion sovereignty Spain tempest THEORY OF REVOLUTIONS Third Estate tion tocsin whilst whole wild
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Seite 18 - ... hands. Women were pursued from house to house, and hurled from roof and window. They were hunted into the river; they were torn limb from limb in the streets. Men and children fared no better; but the heart sickens at the oft-repeated tale. Horrors, alas, were commonplaces in the Netherlands. Cruelty too monstrous for description, too vast to be believed by a mind not familiar with the outrages practised by the soldiers of Spain and Italy upon their heretic fellow-creatures, were now committed...
Seite 11 - There is a point, even, at which the timid stag, hunted over mountain and valley, and finding the yelping pack coming closer and closer upon his failing steps, turns panting and furious at bay, and plunges his antlers into the nearest foe.* There is a right of revolution, then, which God never intended should be taken from men, until he brings in that more perfect constitution of human affairs, when there shall be nothing to hurt or destroy in all his holy mountain.
Seite 12 - ... might, summoned by a call more potent than the bugle blast of Roderic, or the great iron tongue of the bell Roland in Ghent, to shake off the shackles of perverted authority, and overthrow the strongholds of abused power. There is always a strong presumption in favour of established institutions — a strong presumption in favour of existing government. The fact that it is, is prima facie evidence, until the contrary is proved, that it ought to be. Although despotism, for instance, or monarchy,...
Seite 21 - The American revolution was not a revolution in the sense in which the Southern rebellion is necessarily a revolution, if it attain to that dignity at all. It was no organic disruption of society, no radical disintegration of the framework of government. It was a mere separation of certain governmental dependencies from a distant sovereignty, with which, though largely affiliated in origin and language, they had scarcely anything in common in respect to governmental polity and tendencies. The colonies...
Seite 8 - ... winter, day, night, cold, heat, are each respectively a revolution on the other. Now a law, analogous to this which thus pervades all nature, is, or seems to be, the law of national life. If we fail to see at once the accuracy or precision of its analogy, it is only because its cycles are so great, and its periods so long, that we can take but a few of them within the scope of our vision. It is only by a careful study of the whole history of national experience, that we arrive at the comprehensive...
Seite 33 - ... foreign powers. It is not our purpose to speculate upon the probabilities or improbabilities of a war with England, or any other foreign power, or to conjecture the course and ultimate result of such a war, or to endeavour to forecast the wide-spread complications to which it might give rise, both on this continent and in Europe. This is not our province. Suffice to say, that if it does occur, it will probably make history enough to occupy the pens of several generations. It is our purpose, rather,...
Seite 13 - ... resist. Revolution, or the overthrow of established government, therefore, is not justifiable on caprice, or at the discretion of the people; nor on account of unwise or unequal legislation; nor simply for the object of benefiting the condition of the people. Rebellion, or the attempt to overthrow a legitimate authority by force of arms, is justifiable — 1. Only when obedience to that government is disobedience to God. 2.
Seite 22 - ... Independence which would stand the scrutiny of fact, such as was put forth on the 4th of July, 1776, they would be justified in this rebellion. But, instead of all this, what have we? What have been their grievances ? Have they been hanged and burned, drawn and quartered, like the patient Netherlanders? Have their ancient constitutions, charters, and privileges, been trampled in the dust? Instead of this, they have been continually strengthened by new guaranties, and conciliatory propositions...
Seite 13 - ... and in manifold circumstances it may be best adapted to the wants of men. And in a rude and unprepared age, when men need to be under tutors and governors, the man would be justly branded as a wild enthusiast and madman, who should raise the standard of revolution, and rally men around the chimera of an ideal and impossible republicanism, based upon the abstract rights of man. There is one general rule or formula which has been often referred to and quoted since our own civil troubles commenced,...
Seite 32 - When that is done, we may hope to see a reconstruction, if not a restoration. "When wild war's deadly blast is blown," we may hope to hail again the return of "the piping times of peace," when, according to rare old Ben Johnson, "every man can stand under the eaves of his own hat, and sing his own song." And let us hope that we will emerge from this conflict chastened and sobered, made wiser and better, more charitable and appreciative of each other; prepared to bury old feuds, and extinguish old...