Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3), Essay 8
France in the Eighteenth Century
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Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3), Essay 8 is subtitled France in the Eighteenth Century and is by John Morley. The contents list names, among others, M. Taine as a man of letters, M. Taine’s conception of history, The French Court and Lesson of the American Revolution. The text says it would perhaps not be too bold to lay down the proposition that no good social history has ever been written by a man who has not either himself taken a more or less active part in public affairs, or else been an habitual intimate of persons who were taking such a part on a considerable scale.
The text says nothing can be more really admirable than M. Taine’s criticism upon Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, as great masters of language. The text asks M. Taine, if the convulsions of 1789-1794 were due to the revolutionary doctrine and that doctrine was the poison of the movement, how he would explain the firm, manly, steadfast, unhysterical quality of the American Revolution thirteen years before.
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- John Morley
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