The Lessons of the French Revolution

In 18 19, Constant is thinking about the lessons of the central political events of his lifetime after they have completed the turning of the wheel. And he is able to draw lessons on the basis of knowing, in that story, at least, how it ded. Some of his earlier writings were haunted by the kind of precariousness that hobbs experienced when he wrote leviathan. Hobbs's great mistake, in his own mind, was writing leviathan 16 forty nine, 16 50, publishing it in 16 51. It meant it came out at the point where the sovereign power in england was the parliament. Under the terms of hobbs's argument, you had to suck up the