This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1821 Excerpt: ...good and patient listener, for he wishes to know if what is said can throw any light on his own affairs: but Cicero and Demosthenes together would not draw him to the slightest sacrifice of personal interest. Many people of moderate capacity call that reason; it is reason of an inferior order; there is one more exalted ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1821 Excerpt: ...good and patient listener, for he wishes to know if what is said can throw any light on his own affairs: but Cicero and Demosthenes together would not draw him to the slightest sacrifice of personal interest. Many people of moderate capacity call that reason; it is reason of an inferior order; there is one more exalted, which does not proceed by mere calculation. Bonaparte, in conversing with me on Switzerland, alleged the situation of the Pays de Vaud, as a motive for the entrance of the French troops. He told me, that the inhabitants of that district were subject to the aristocrats of Berne, and that men could not now exist without political rights. I moderated, as well as I could, this republican ardour, by representing to him that the "Viludois were perfectly free in every civil relation, and that when liberty exists in fact, it is unnecessary, for the sake of the abstract right, to expose ourselves to the greatest of misfortunes, that of seeing foreigners in our native land. "Self-love and imagination," replied the General, " make men cling to the advantage of sharing in the government of their / country, and there is injustice in excluding any portion of them from it." Nothing is more true in principle., said I, General; but it is equally true that it is by their own efforts that liberty should be obtained, and not by calling in the aid of a power which must be necessarily predominant. The word principle has since appeared very suspicious to Bonaparte, but it then suited him to make use of it, and he alleged it against me. I insisted anew on the happiness and beauty of Switzerland, and the repose which she had for many centuries enjoyed. "Yes, without doubt," said Bonaparte, interrupting me, "but men must have p...
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