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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 392 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.
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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.
Saturday, October 10, 2015
Friday, October 9, 2015
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