Channing's Note-Book
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217189613
Paperback|9780217189613
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Associate man with God. Plead for him as he has never been pleaded for before. Society?the State. I owe so much to my country that I cannot, ought not, to be indifferent to its interests. Republicanism does not know itself. It is highest spiritualism. It is the rejection of all outward distinction. It honors man as man. The people have a right to be well governed. They have a right to judge whether they are, ? and, if convinced they are not, they have a right to change the government. A bad sovereign makes an unhappy country. Does this rule change when the people are sovereign ? Can the people govern any farther than they are enlightened and self governed? The people swayed by demagogues do not rule. Despotism is a cure for parties. Shut up men's mouths and minds, and all will agree, but who wishes thus to banish party spirit ? In free governments we shall have variety of thoughts, views. The free mind is still a blessing. It is the distinction of a statesman from apolitician that he sees, comprehends and seizes on the enduring, the stable, the eternal, ? that low temporary interests do not hide the everlasting. Nothing but sympathy with society will lead to its cure. Hence those who are raised above the mass can do little. No man has a claim to office but on grounds of spiritual distinction. Man's right to his productive power is higher, more universal than all others. Every individual has a right to vote, as each has an interest in government and is an end of government. This interest is expressed by his individual action in the government. How we fold up ourselves in our comforts and respectablenesses How little we dream what surrounds us The suppression of the multitude by force is not order. It is rebellion kept down. We lead self-c...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217189613 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021718961X |
| Weight | 0.30 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.20 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 82 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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