This is an appendix to: How To Identify The Despotic Minority - 15
"The leaders of the barbarian warbands were military adventurers and the
constitution of the successor states, as of the Roman Empire itself at
the time, was despotism tempered by revolution. [14]"
"The last of these barbaric despotisms
was extinguished many centuries before the real beginning of the new
growth which gradually produced what we call parliamentary
institutions. [14]"
"It was this latter-day Italian despotic
system which, crossing the Alps, was readily adapted to the larger
Transalpine political units — by Hapsburgs in Spain, by Valois and
Bourbons in France, by Hapsburgs again in Austria, and eventually by
Hohenzollerns in Prussia. [259]"
"The easier and inferior way of adjustment was through keying up the monarchies themselves into tyrannies or despotisms on the pattern of those despotisms to which so many of the Italian states had already succumbed. [316]"
"The
harder but better method was the keying-up of the medieval assemblies of Estates in the Transalpine
kingdoms into organs of representative government which would be as
efficient as the latter-day Italian despotisms and would at the
same time provide, on the national scale, for as liberal a measure of
self-government as the self-governing institutions of the Italian
city-states in what had been, politically at any rate, their best days. [317]"
"Under the adroit and nationally minded Tudors the monarchy began to develop into a despotism, but under the ill- fated Stuarts Parliament drew level with the Crown and finally drew ahead. [317]"
"In France the despotic
tendency lasted much longer and went much farther, and the result was a
far more violent revolution which ushered in a period of political
instability the end of which is not yet in sight. [317]"
"In Spain and Germany the drift towards despotism
continued down to our own day and the democratic counter-movements,
thus inordinately long delayed, have found themselves involved in all
the complications which have been outlined in the previous sections of
this chapter. [317]"
"The vast despotism of the Caesars,
gradually effacing all national peculiarities and assimilating the
remotest provinces of the Empire to each other, augmented the evil. [385]"
"I do not think the danger before us is anarchy, but despotism, the loss of spiritual freedom, the totalitarian state, perhaps a universal world totalitarian state. [385]"
"And, as an alternative to anarchy, the World would welcome the despotic state. [385]"
"Greek
science did not find the Ptolemaic realm an uncongenial environment,
and I think, generally speaking, natural science may flourish under a despotism. [386]"
"The
failure of Orphism may be similarly explained if it is true, as there
seems reason to believe, that the propagation of Orphism received its
first impulse from the Athenian despots of the House of Peisistratus. [515]"
"No
less than three times in his life Plato voluntarily, though
reluctantly, emerged from his Attic retreat and crossed the sea to
Syracuse in the hope of converting a Sicilian despot to an Athenian philosopher’s conception of a prince’s duty. [564]"
"For,
though Plato is at pains to give his philosopher-king’s government the
benefit of the consent of the governed, it is evident that there would
be no purpose in the philosopher’s surprising personal union with the
potentate who is to be an absolute monarch unless the despot’s power of physical coercion is to be held in readiness for use in case of necessity; [566]"
"A
contrast is offered by the abortive effort of the Emperor- King Joseph
II (reigned 1780-90), one of the so-called enlightened despots of
the Western world in the generation before the French Revolution, to
impose the use of German on the non-German- speaking peoples of the
Danubian Hapsburg monarchy. [628]"
"The communion between the Soul and the One True God cannot thus degenerate into the bondage of a slave to a despot,
for in each of the higher religions, in diverse measure, the vision of
God as Power is transfigured by the vision of Him as Love; [689]"
"Let
us grasp the full significance of Frederick’s Italian-Roman State: a
mighty pan-Italian seignory, which for a short time united in one state
Germanic, Roman, and Oriental elements — Frederick himself, Emperor of
the World, being the Grand Signor and Grand Tyrant thereof, the last of
these princes to wear the diadem of Rome, whose Caesarhood was not only
allied with German kingship, like Barbarossa’s, but with
Oriental- Sicilian despotism. [693]"
"the impact of Italian efficiency on Transalpine governments, as illustrated (except in England) by the emergence of despotic monarchies; [949]"
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