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 edition. Excerpt: ...a divine virtue, so that he became a kind of god, and a Divinity inspired him with faculty and right to rule over you to all lengths: this, --what can we do with this but leave it to rot silently in the Public Libraries? But I will say withal, and that is what these Divineright men meant, That in Kings, and in ...
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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 edition. Excerpt: ...a divine virtue, so that he became a kind of god, and a Divinity inspired him with faculty and right to rule over you to all lengths: this, --what can we do with this but leave it to rot silently in the Public Libraries? But I will say withal, and that is what these Divineright men meant, That in Kings, and in all human Authorities, and relations that men god-created can form among each other, there is verily either a Divine Right or else a Diabolic Wrong; one or the other of these two! For it is false altogether, what the lastSceptical Century taught us, that this world is a steamengine. There is a God in this world; and a God's-sanction, or else the violation of such, does look-out from all ruling and obedience, from all moral acts of men. There is no act more moral between men than that of rule and obedience. Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is! God's law is in that, I say, however the Parchment-laws may run: there is a Divine Right or else a Diabolic Wrong at the heart of every claim that one man makes upon another. It can do none of us harm to reflect on this: in all the relations of life it will concern us; in Loyalty and Royalty, the highest of these. I esteem the modern error. That all goes by self-interest and the checking and balancing of greedy knaveries, and that, in short, there is nothing divine whatever In the association of men, a still more despicable error, natural as it is to an unbelieving century, than that of a ' divine right' in people called Kings. I say, Find me the true Konning, King, or Able-man, and he has a divine right over me. That we knew in some tolerable measure how to find him, and that all men were ready to acknowledge his divine right when found: this is...
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. With owner's name inside cover. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. 12mo. Blue cloth binding. Gilt lettering on backstrip. Some light shelf wear on backstrip. Stains on front and back boards. Bumped corners. Untrimmed and foxed page edges. Front and back hinge splits. Some moderate foxing. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 600grams, ISBN:
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