Download or read book The Paternal State in France and Germany Classic Reprint written by Henry Gaullieur and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Paternal State in France and Germany IT is almost an impertinence nowadays to remind a reader of past events; we travel so fast through life that Old scenes, if remembered at all, are remembered only as it were by their picturesque features, by their peculiarly Odd or extraordinary forms. Our allotted time is brief, and the past, with its cumbersome civiliza tion, is ever receding from our View. Nevertheless, we all know that nothing' happens by accident in human evolution; that there is a cause behind every phenoms non, be it a physical, a political, or a social one and we know that there is a law connecting the cause with the effect recorded in past annals. It has always struck me that the relations existing be tween some of the most important phenomena of French and German history, and their real, permanent causes, have never been sufficiently examined. If we all know, for instance, why the French nation overthrew its old absolute monarchy in 17 93, we seldom ask ourselves why a still more absolute and despotic republic, and, later on, an absolute and despotic empire, were substituted for it. Again, we all know that the modern French and German people, borrowing parliamentary forms from England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book The Paternal State in France and Germany written by Henry Gaullieur and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Paternal State in France and Germany It is almost an impertinence nowadays to remind a reader of past events; we travel so fast through life that old scenes, if remembered at all, are remembered only as it were by their picturesque features, by their peculiarly odd or extraordinary forms. Our allotted time is brief, and the past, with its cumbersome civilization, is ever receding from our view. Nevertheless, we all know that nothing happens by accident in human evolution; that there is a cause behind every phenomenon, be it a physical, a political, or a social one; and we know that there is a law connecting the cause with the effect recorded in past annals. It has always struck me that the relations existing between some of the most important phenomena of French and German history, and their real, permanent causes, have never been sufficiently examined. If we all know, for instance, why the French nation overthrew its old absolute monarchy in 1793, we seldom ask ourselves why a still more absolute and despotic republic, and, later on, an absolute and despotic empire, were substituted for it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Origins of Modern Germany written by Geoffrey Barraclough and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1984 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No one is likely to underrate the importance for the rest of Europe--and, indeed, for world history--of the German reaction, beginning in the days of Bismarck, to the crisis of modern industrial capitalism," writes Professor Barraclough, "but the peculiar character of that reaction is only comprehensible in the light of Germany's past. Factors deeply rooted in German history . . . constituted an iron framework, a mold within which were cast all German efforts, from 1870 to 1939, to cope with the problems of modern capitalist society."
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