The absorption of the individual by the State is fatal to the independence of the subject. We have no better instance of the excessive uniformity which renders the productions of their best writers fatiguing and monotonous, than in the brilliant literary... The London Quarterly Review - Page 6edited by - 1862Full view - About this book
| 1861 - 606 pages
...absorption of the individual by the state is fatal to the independence of the subject. We have no better instance of the excessive uniformity which renders...fatiguing and monotonous, than in the brilliant literary mechauism of the age of Louis XIV. All progress, as Mr. Buckle has remarked, is impossible with an... | |
| William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1862 - 642 pages
...absorption of the individual by the State is fatal to the independence of the subject. We have no better instance of the excessive uniformity which renders...charming only at a distance. On a nearer view this sesthetic and irreproachable system, this masterpiece of political architecture, is only a magnificent... | |
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