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PublisherForgotten Books

ISBN-101330270258

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Book TitlePolitical Essays (Classic Reprint)

Number of Pages366 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2015

TopicHistory & Theory

IllustratorYes

GenrePolitical Science

AuthorParke Godwin

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SynopsisExcerpt from Political Essays Yet, on a closer survey, it will be found that parties here are very much the same, in their characteristic tendencies and aims, as parties elsewhere. They originate in that human nature which is the same everywhere (modified by local circumstances only), and they exhibit, under the various inuences of personal constitution, ambition, interest, etc., the same contrasts of selfishness and virtue, of craft and honesty, of genius and falsehood, of wisdom and folly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works., Excerpt from Political Essays Foreigners complain that they cannot easily understand our political parties, and we do not wonder at it, because those parties do not always understand themselves. Their controversies, like the old homoousian disputes of the church, often turn upon such niceties of distinction, that to discern their differences requires optics as sharp as those of Butler's hero, who could - "Sever and divide Betwixt northwest and northwest side." What with whigs, democratic whigs, democrats, true democrats, barnburners, hunkers, silver grays, woolly heads, soft shells, hard shells, national reformers, fire-eaters, and fillibusteros, it is easy to imagine how the exotic intellect should get perplexed! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.