The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 145Atlantic Monthly Company, 1930 - American literature |
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Page 87
I IN French political life certain qualities seem to be permanent , such as the individualism originally inherited from the Gauls , which is now innate in our character . Instead of organized parties on the English model , we have ...
I IN French political life certain qualities seem to be permanent , such as the individualism originally inherited from the Gauls , which is now innate in our character . Instead of organized parties on the English model , we have ...
Page 93
These political theories were quite suitable to the electorate of peasants and artisans which we inherited from the French Revolution , before the great industrial changes took place at the end of the nineteenth century .
These political theories were quite suitable to the electorate of peasants and artisans which we inherited from the French Revolution , before the great industrial changes took place at the end of the nineteenth century .
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We are not endowed , as our British brethren , with any such political grace . ... too much the philosophers and therefore too much absolutists to engage successfully in the relativities of politics , we are too much the engineers .
We are not endowed , as our British brethren , with any such political grace . ... too much the philosophers and therefore too much absolutists to engage successfully in the relativities of politics , we are too much the engineers .
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