Calendar: 1880-1881 Page 650
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650 general literature and science found under every disguise and in every countiy-scholars physicians merchants serving-men in the hostile court of Sweden in the old manor-houses of Cheshire among the hovels of Connaught arguing instructing consoling stealing away the hearts of the young animating the courage of the timid holding up the crucifix before the eyes of the dying Nor was it less their office to plot against the thrones and lives of apostate kings to spread evil rumours to raise tumults to inflame civil wars to arm the hand of the assassin Inflexible in nothing but in their fidelity to the church they were equally ready to appeal in her cause to the spirit of loyalty and to the spirit of freedom Extreme doctrines of obedience and extreme doctrines of liberty-the right of rulers to misgovern the people the right of every one of the people to plunge his knife in the heart of bad ruler-were inculcated by the same man according as he addressed him- self to the subject of Philip or to the subject of Elizabeth Macaulay Essay on Ranlce's History of the Popes Traduisez en anglais Que faut-il pour que les hommes puissent former une societe un peu durable un peu reguliere ii faut ovidemment qu'ils aient un certain nombre d'idees assez otendues pour convenir cette societe pour s'appliquer ses besoins ses rapports ii faut de plus que ces idees soient communes la plupart des membres de la societe enfin qu'elles exercent quelque empire sur leurs volontes et leurs actions 11 est clair que si les hommes n'ont pas des idoes qui s'etendent au-dela de leur propre existence si leur horizon intellectuel est borne eux-memes s'ils sont livres au vent de leurs passions et de leurs volontos s'ils n'ont pas entre eux un certain nombre de notions et de sentiments communs autour desquels ils se rallient il est clair dis-je qu'il n'y aura entre eux point de societe possible que chaque individu sera dans association oil il entrera un principe de trouble et de dissolution Partout 011 Tindividualite domine presque absolument ou
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