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bonds of order and authority, undermined the securities of social life, offered free scope to the passions, and made room for the material and lower appetites to rule and enslave the spirit.

We,

anti-revolutionists, have taken

system, not against those

liberties.

up arms against

We know

this

the /^ri'/^^-

paradis cannot be realized on earth, but we are equally unwilling, without just cause, to retrace our steps to tives dti

the siipplices de renfer.

Thinking

an act of wisdom, the press has taken de-

it

extreme revolutionists whenever our prowere entered against reaction and repristination. But

light in calling us tests

this

So

a mistake.

is

little

are

we

averse to revolutions, in

the general sense, that the insurrection of Greece against

commands our

Persia

tion against the

admiration, and Switzerland's insurrec-

Hapsburgs awakens our sympathies, the

re-

sistence of Holland against Spain incites our love, England's

glorious revolution receives our hearty approval, and America's liberation

our warmest praise and applause.

But protest

is

revolutionists side

Bluntschli's liberals,

and yet

entered against those

by

side with the

name in his

rechts" he writes:

who

place these

French Revolution.

excites no suspicion in the

minds of

" Geschichte des allgemeinen Staats-

"The

English revolution did not intend,

as the French Revolution did later on, to bring into the world

a

new

state,

and a new law;

its

only purpose was to defend

the ancient rights of the people and with

new guarantees

to

re-establish them.*"

And why fessor

not quote Burke, introduced

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in

among

us

by Pro-

his rectoral oration in

1857 as a liberal statesman par excellence and a most trustworthy guide in all politic. Edmund Burke was an anti-revolutionist. defended the American insurrection, because faith "always a principle of energy showed itself in this good people

matters

He

the main cause of a free

spirit,

the most adverse to

all

im-

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