My Country Right or Wrong (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Hervé, Gustave) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from My Country Right or Wrong The well-known work of Gustave Hervé appears now for the first time in an English dress. In no country more than in Great Britain is the noble protest of Herve against that fraudulent counterfeit of a moral principle which is called in the present day patriotism, necessary. Time was not later than the eighteenth century, when the word patriotism connected the cause of the people against governments and against the oppressions of a privileged class; this was the sense in which the word was used till the time of the French Revolution. In the great manifesto in which the National Convention in 1792 called upon the peoples of Europe to make common cause with France against their oppressors, that is, to make common cause with an alien power against their own native ruling classes, the appeal was supposed to be made to their patriotism. Some years before this. Dr. Johnson, in this country, is credited with a mot to the effect that patriotism is the last resort of scoundrels. Now, Dr. Johnson, the old Tory reactionary of the eighteenth century, would certainly not have said this of any but the popular agitator who was against the government of his day. 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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