Historical Lessons on Home Rule, to Which Is Added a Draft Bill for Settling the Whole Question (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Historical Lessons on Home Rule, to Which Is Added a Draft Bill for Settling the Whole Question The philosophical student of history, while taking a general survey of the record of events, may well be struck with dismay at the weary round of failures that beset the path of mankind in their efforts to set up a stable Government. The rise and fall of great empires seem to be regulated by laws over which the wisest statesmen and the truest patriots can have little or no control. Born of heroism and virtuous poverty, nations advance by slow and steady degrees till they attain to power and opulence, when the very success of their efforts brings about the vices that surely ends in their destruction. Is the record of past failures, then, to lead us to despair of setting up a Commonwealth that will alike meet the wants of a virtuous poverty and a time of luxurious wealth; or shall we not rather take the lessons of the past to heart, and, by wisely scanning the causes of destruction, steer the vessel of the State past the quicksands and rocks that have wrecked so many goodly navies, whose stranded hulls will serve as beacons to warn us of our danger? 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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