The Battle Summer: Being Transcripts From Personal Observation in Paris, During the Year 1848
The Battle Summer: Being Transcripts From Personal Observation in Paris, During the Year 1848
Mitchell, Donald Grant, 1822-1908
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To them, reared in the old-fashioned school of politics — the practical school — a Republic with such patrons and di- rectors as hot-headed Rollin, speculative, poetizing, general- izing Lamartine, and strong-headed, mathematic Arago, ap- peared simply, absurd, and impracticable. Any government with such direction, would have seemed to them the same. It was not the form, so much as the formers ; it was not the thing, so much as the means of reaching it. — The Republic — said they, moreover — is... not a considered matter ; — not as yet subjected to calculation, to analysis, to proper direction. Political action has not ripened for it, or toward it. It has nothing settled, or practical associated with its direction. It is the result of an impulse, and not of, re- flection ; it is the monstrous growth of a passion, and not the normal result of regular political inquiry. Its creatures are those of impulse ; having begun with it, they must yield to it, and where it will carry us, and the coun- try, Heaven only knows.
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