...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...

...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...