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. 1888 Excerpt: ...Miser, the Misanthrope, or the Hypocrite; or La Bruyere the Great, the Politicians, the Freethinkers. It is an honor to him, as well as to the classics, his masters, to show how history-sustains the correctness of his portrayal, and how we can put names and dates under each of his pictures; but we should pervert his ...
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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. 1888 Excerpt: ...Miser, the Misanthrope, or the Hypocrite; or La Bruyere the Great, the Politicians, the Freethinkers. It is an honor to him, as well as to the classics, his masters, to show how history-sustains the correctness of his portrayal, and how we can put names and dates under each of his pictures; but we should pervert his meaning by adding further particulars. Again, we should misconstrue it by representing it as abstract. Montesquieu endeavors to form his general ideas by means of facts 7 that he has observed; he does not pretend te conceive, by dint of pure speculation, absolute and universal ideas. He tries to form a common type from the monarchies or republics he knows; he does not deduce from an a priori ideal, monarchy in its essence, nor the rational republic. It follows that the principles he lays down, and the laws he develops from them, derive all their meaning and application from the relation they sustain to reality. CHAPTER VI. "THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS,"--POLITICAL LAWS AND GOVERNMENTS. THE book on "Governments" begins with democratic government; that is, with the kind in which the people are sovereign. Montesquieu's conception is modelled after Rome, in the ages when the Republic was still the city; after Athens and Lacedaemon, "at a time when Greece was a world and the Greek cities nations." The republic, so constituted, is suited only to a narrow territory; the citizens, few in number, are divided into classes; they own slaves, and busy themselves with nothing but politics and war. Thanks to their freedom from private cares and to the narrow limits of the city, they are able to attend to the innumerable and absorbing duties of municipal life. They carry on little or no commerce, --enough only to arouse a spirit "of...
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Add this copy of Montesquieu to cart. $23.00, good condition, Sold by bookbooth rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Berea, OH, UNITED STATES, published 1969 by Kennikat Press.
