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Book IV. Varennes.
Chapter 1. Easter at Saint-Cloud. The French Monarchy may now therefore be considered as, in all human probability, lost; as struggling henceforth in blindness as well as weakness, the last light of reasonable guidance having gone out. What remains of resourc...
Book V. Parliament First.
Chapter 1. Grande Acceptation. In the last nights of September, when the autumnal equinox is past, and grey September fades into brown October, why are the Champs Elysees illuminated; why is Paris dancing, and flinging fire-works? They are gala-nights, these ...
Book VI. The Marseillese.
Chapter 1. Executive That Does Not Act. How could your paralytic National Executive be put 'in action,' in any measure, by such a Twentieth of June as this? Quite contrariwise: a large sympathy for Majesty so insulted arises every where; expresses itself in A...
Book I. September.
Chapter 1. The Improvised Commune. Ye have roused her, then, ye Emigrants and Despots of the world; France is roused; long have ye been lecturing and tutoring this poor Nation, like cruel uncalled-for pedagogues, shaking over her your ferulas of fire and stee...
Book II. Regicide.
Chapter 1. The Deliberative. France therefore has done two things very completely: she has hurled back her Cimmerian Invaders far over the marches; and likewise she has shattered her own internal Social Constitution, even to the minutest fibre of it, into wre...
Book III. The Girondins.
Chapter 1. Cause and Effect. This huge Insurrectionary Movement, which we liken to a breaking out of Tophet and the Abyss, has swept away Royalty, Aristocracy, and a King's life. The question is, What will it next do; how will it henceforth shape itself? Sett...
Book IV. Terror.
Chapter 1. Charlotte Corday. In the leafy months of June and July, several French Departments germinate a set of rebellious paper-leaves, named Proclamations, Resolutions, Journals, or Diurnals 'of the Union for Resistance to Oppression.' In particular, the T...
Book V. Terror the Order of the Day.
Chapter 1. Rushing Down. We are now, therefore, got to that black precipitous Abyss; whither all things have long been tending; where, having now arrived on the giddy verge, they hurl down, in confused ruin; headlong, pellmell, down, down;—till Sansculottism ...
Book VI. Thermidor.
Chapter 1. The Gods Are Athirst. What then is this Thing, called La Revolution, which, like an Angel of Death, hangs over France, noyading, fusillading, fighting, gun-boring, tanning human skins? La Revolution is but so many Alphabetic Letters; a thing nowher...
Book VII. Vendemiaire.
Chapter 1. Decadent. How little did any one suppose that here was the end not of Robespierre only, but of the Revolution System itself! Least of all did the mutinying Committee-men suppose it; who had mutinied with no view whatever except to continue the Nati...
Introduction
Nothing is more usual and more natural for those, who pretend to discover any thing new to the world in philosophy and the sciences, than to insinuate the praises of their own systems, by decrying all those, which have been advanced before them. And indeed wer...
Part I: Of ideas, their origin, composition, connexion, abstraction, etc.
Section I. Of the origin of our ideas All the perceptions of the human mind resolve themselves into two distinct kinds, which I shall call Impressions and Ideas. The difference betwixt these consists in the degrees of force and liveliness with which they stri...
Part II: Of the ideas of space and time
Section I. Of the infinite divisibility of our idea of space and time Whatever has the air of a paradox, and is contrary to the first and most unprejudic'd notions of mankind is often greedily embrac'd by philosophers, as shewing the superiority of their scie...
Part III: Of knowledge and probability
Section I. Of knowledge There are 1 seven different kinds of philosophical relation, viz. resemblance, identity, relations of time and place, proportion in quantity or number, degrees in any quality, contrariety, and causation. These relations may be divided ...
Part IV: Of the sceptical and other systems of philosophy
Section I. Of scepticism with regard to reason In all demonstrative sciences the rules are certain and infallible; but when we apply them, our fallible and uncertain faculties are very apt to depart from them, and fall into error. We must, therefore, in every...
Slavery in Massachusetts
An Address, delivered at the Anti-Slavery Celebration at Framingham, July 4th, 1854. I lately attended a meeting of the citizens of Concord, expecting, as one among many, to speak on the subject of slavery in Massachusetts; but I was surprised and disappointe...
Prayer
Not with fond shekels of the tested gold,Nor gems whose rates are either rich or poor,As fancy values them: but with true prayers,That shall be up at heaven, and enter thereEre sunrise; prayers from preserved souls,From fasting maids, whose minds are dedicat...
Civil Disobedience
I heartily accept the motto,—"That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe,—"That government is best which governs not at al...