Monday, October 19, 2015

Financial Liberalism

The spectacle of 
Financial Liberalism weeping for the sorrows of its eternal 
enemy, the Gfektian religion, is condemnation enough of the 
political errors into which the Curia was fallen. 
 
https://archive.org/stream/napoleontheportr015065mbp#page/n341/mode/2up 
 
This action 
was dictated by one paramount consideration : the great Debt 
System which held England and the world in its merciless 
claws was so sorely wounded that, if peace could be obtained in 
Europe on any terms which did not include surrender to 
London, the defeat of debt could scarcely be averted.
 
https://archive.org/stream/napoleontheportr015065mbp#page/n353/mode/2up 
 
Lord 
Liverpool, the Prime Minister, who was about to sell the 
whole agricultural and industrial population of England into 
slavery to the foreign moneylenders whom he served, said to 

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THE PUNISHMENT OF THE ROCK 

Castlereagh, his Foreign Secretary, and the former paymaster 
of the three kings : 

" We wish that the Kihg of France would hang or shoot 
Bonaparte as the best termination of the business," 
 
https://archive.org/stream/napoleontheportr015065mbp#page/n391/mode/2up 

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Dawson Europe

The expansion of urban civilisation in the imperial age was, in fact, 
to an even greater 
extent than that of modern industrialism, a great system of 
exploitation which organised the resources of the newly con- 
quered lands and concentrated them in the hands of a minor- 
ity consisting of capitalists and business men;
 
https://archive.org/stream/makingofeurope00daws#page/32/mode/2up 
 
So long as the empire was expanding the system paid its way, 
for every new 
war resulted in fresh territories to urbanise and new supplies 
of cheap slave labour. But as soon as the process of expansion 
came to an end and the empire was forced to stand on the 
defensive against new barbarian invasions, the economic bal- 
ance was destroyed. The resources of the empire began to 
diminish, while its expenditure continued to increase. 
 
...
 
They 
saw in the Roman Empire the realisation of the traditional 
Hellenistic idea of the unity of the civilised world — the oecu- 
mene — an d they held up to the emperors the Stoic ideal of 
an enlightened monarchy in which the ruler dedicates his life 
to the service of his subjects and regards government, not as 
a privilege, but as a duty.