Introductory Lectures On Modern History Delivered in Lent Term Mdcccxlii Wi
Introductory Lectures On Modern History Delivered in Lent Term Mdcccxlii Wi
Arnold Thomas
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It is worth our while to observe this, as one instance out of thousands, how little any real history is an exact exemplification of abstract prin- ciples ; how our generalizations which must indeed be made, for so alone can history furnish us with any truths must yet be kept within certain limits, or they become full of error. Thus, for instance, it is quite true to say that the struggle against Austria and Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was not a mere resistance against terri...torial aggres- sion : there were principles involved in the contest. Yet all concerned in this resistance did not feel it to be a contest of principle : France, under Francis the First and Henry the Second, and again under Henry the Fourth, and lastly under Louis the Thirteenth, or rather under Richelieu, was most deeply engaged in 142 LECTURE III. the resistance to Austria and Spain ; yet certainly the French government at no one time was contend- ing either for Christian truth or for civil freedom.
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