This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XX '. HOW THE REVOLUTION SPRANG SPONTANEOUSLY OUT OP THE PRECEDING FACTS. IDESIRE, in conclusion, to put together some of the features which I have separately sketched, and, having drawn the portrait of the old regime, to watch the Revolution spring from it by its own unaided effort. 0' Let it ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XX '. HOW THE REVOLUTION SPRANG SPONTANEOUSLY OUT OP THE PRECEDING FACTS. IDESIRE, in conclusion, to put together some of the features which I have separately sketched, and, having drawn the portrait of the old regime, to watch the Revolution spring from it by its own unaided effort. 0' Let it he borne in mind that France was the only country in which the feudal system had preserved its injurious and irritating characteristics, while it had lo&l all those which were beneficial or useful j_and it will seem less surprising that the Revolution which wasjto abolish the old constitution of Europe should .have broken out there rather than elsewhere. Let it also be borne in mind that France was the only feudal country in which the nobility had lost its old political rights, lost the right of administering government and leading the people, but had nevertheless retained and even largely increased DEGREES its pecuniary- indemnities and the individual privileges, of its members; had, in its subordinate position, remained a close body, growing less and less of an aristocracy and more and more of a caste; and it will at once be understood why its privileges seemed so inexplicable and detestable to the French, and why their hearts were inflamed with a democratic envy that is not yet extinguished. Let it be borne in mind, finally, that the nobility was separated from the middle classes, which it had eschewod, and from the jjeople, whose affections it had lost; that it stood alone in the midst of the nation, seemingly the staff of an army, really a group of soldierless officers; and it will be easy to conceive how, after an existence of a thousand years, it was overthrown in a single night. I have shown how the royal government abolished
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