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Discourse on the Causes of Political Revolutions
Excerpt from Discourse on the Causes of Political Revolutions
To come at once to the conclusion, with Chateaubriand, that there is no safe theory upon which we can proceed in our investigation of the causes of popular Revolutions, but that in spite of a thousand efforts to detect it, something must necessarily escape us; that this secret cause, while it is indescribable and hidden, and not perceptible in social man, is, nevertheless, the e?'icient cause of all Revolu tions, is to extinguish in our minds the light of history and experience, and to sit down, in despair, amidst the darkness which our own ignorance or timidity has created....
To come at once to the conclusion, with Chateaubriand, that there is no safe theory upon which we can proceed in our investigation of the causes of popular Revolutions, but that in spite of a thousand efforts to detect it, something must necessarily escape us; that this secret cause, while it is indescribable and hidden, and not perceptible in social man, is, nevertheless, the e?'icient cause of all Revolu tions, is to extinguish in our minds the light of history and experience, and to sit down, in despair, amidst the darkness which our own ignorance or timidity has created....
40 pages, Hardcover
First published September 27, 2015
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