The Ancien Regime
The Ancien Regime
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Let us be slaves, provided we are all slaves alike. " It maydestroy every standard of humanity above its own mean average; it mayforget that the old ruling class, in spite of all its defects and crimes, did at least pretend to represent something higher than man's necessarywants, plus the greed of amassing money; never meeting (at least in thecountry districts) any one wiser or more refined than an official or apriest drawn from the peasant class, it may lose the belief that anystandard higher ...than that is needed; and, all but forgetting the veryexistence of civilisation, sink contented into a dead level ofintellectual mediocrity and moral barbarism, crying, "Let us eat anddrink, for to-morrow we die. " A nation in such a temper will surely be taken at its word. Where thecarcase is, there the eagles will be gathered together; and there willnot be wanting to such nations--as there were not wanting in old Greeceand Rome--despots who will give them all they want, and more, and say tothem: "Yes, you shall eat and drink; and yet you shall not die.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Let us be slaves, provided we are all slaves alike. " It maydestroy every standard of humanity above its own mean average; it mayforget that the old ruling class, in spite of all its defects and crimes, did at least pretend to represent something higher than man's necessarywants, plus the greed of amassing money; never meeting (at least in thecountry districts) any one wiser or more refined than an official or apriest drawn from the peasant class, it may lose the belief that anystandard higher ...than that is needed; and, all but forgetting the veryexistence of civilisation, sink contented into a dead level ofintellectual mediocrity and moral barbarism, crying, "Let us eat anddrink, for to-morrow we die. " A nation in such a temper will surely be taken at its word. Where thecarcase is, there the eagles will be gathered together; and there willnot be wanting to such nations--as there were not wanting in old Greeceand Rome--despots who will give them all they want, and more, and say tothem: "Yes, you shall eat and drink; and yet you shall not die.
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