Outlines of An Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind
Outlines of An Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind
Jean Antoine Nicolas De Caritat Condorcet
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We thus fee making its appearance in Europe a fort of freedom of thought, not for men, but for chriftians : and, if we except ^yt^Tcumv France, for chriftians only does it any where It e^^W exift t0 tms da y- fLrfj/t+iAb*** But this intolerance obliged human reafon ££' to feek the recovery of rights too long for- / 4+mtf gotten, or which rather had never been pro r perly known and underftood. Afhamed at feeing the people oppreffed, in the very fanctuary of their confcience, by kings, the fuperf...titious or political flaves of the priefthood, fome generous individuals dared at length to inveftigate the foundations of their power ; and they revealed this grand J'L^L u~ trut "k to t ' ie wor ^ : tnat liberty is a bleffing ^t~*. LL.. Which cannot be alienated; that no title, no convention in favour of tyranny, can bind a nation to a particular family ; that magiftrates, whatever may be their appellation, their func-r tions, or their power, are the agents, not the tjrpr 9 * ' mates, N ( aoi ) matters, of the people ; that the people have the right of withdrawing an authority origi- nating in themfelves alone, whenever that authority fhall be abufed, or fhall ceafe to be thought ufeful to the interefts of the commu- nity : and laftly, that they have the right to-*.^M*^ punifh, as well as to cafhier their fervants.
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