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Two Enemies of the Enlightenment: 3 – Joseph de Maistre

Isaiah Berlin

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The Jacobins Are Greater Heroes in French History Than Louis the Sixteenth

He wants government to be established in the poetry, mythology and imagination of man. He is against what he calls ba batono craci, or rule of the stick. So long as i live, he says, i shall always hate military government. I have always hated it. And master lays down a proposition which did n't make him down particularly popular in calene. The jacobins were terrible people, but they saved france. Robespierre is a monster. He says, drunk with power and blood. Nevertheless, he was the instrument chosen by history to rescue the french,. o rescue france, defend her frontiers against ex invasion. All power is always better than

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