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Updated: June 27, 2025
At such times, the idlest fancy is more potent with the mind than the soundest arguments of reason. The understanding abdicates its functions; and men are given over, as if by magic, to the enchantments of insanity. Phenomena of this eccentric kind always accompany periods of intellectual change.
Self-reliance, self-control and self-respect are the three things that make a man a man. But man has so recently taken on this ability to think, that he has not yet gotten used to handling it. The tool is cumbrous in his hands. He is afraid of it this one characteristic that differentiates him from the lower animals so he abdicates and turns his divine birthright over to a syndicate.
One can consent to it for the first hour; one seats oneself on the throne of glowing iron, one places on one's head the crown of hot iron, one accepts the globe of red hot iron, one takes the sceptre of red hot iron, but the mantle of flame still remains to be donned, and comes there not a moment when the miserable flesh revolts and when one abdicates from suffering?
"The plan is good, and cannot fail," said the duchess. "It is rather brutal," said the Duc de Guise; "besides which, the king will refuse to sign the abdication. He is brave, and will rather die." "Let him die, then." "Not so," replied the duke, firmly. "I will mount the throne of a prince who abdicates and is despised, but not of an assassinated man who is pitied.
Frankly, it makes one laugh to hear people assign a /role/ to Science, forbid her to enter such and such a domain, predict to her that she shall go no further, and declare that at this end of the century she is already so weary that she abdicates!
The de Goncourts, in their History of French Society during the Revolution and under the Directoire, applied this method with all the zeal of fresh disciples, and with hardly enough discretion. Taine's Origins of Contemporary France abdicates none of the older historian's role, but its background is Balzacian.
If he'd killed a princess, or an Englishman, we'd be obliged to take extreme measures; but, as De Wing says, Mukhum Dass was an awful undesirable. If we hanged Gungadhura, we'd almost have to put one of his five sons on the throne to succeed him. If be abdicates, we can please ourselves.
Reason, as it cannot create experience, so it cannot take its place and be its substitute; but what reason can do is to say within what limits experience is paramount as a teacher; and reason abdicates its functions if it declines to do so, for it was given us to work upon and turn to account the unmeaning and brute materials which experience gives us in the rough.
Pichegru invades Holland Winter Campaign The Duke of York vainly resists the French Army Abdication of the Stadtholder Batavian Republic War with England Unfortunate Situation of Holland Naval Fight English Expedition to the Helder Napoleon Bonaparte Louis Bonaparte named King of Holland His popular Conduct He abdicates the Throne Annexation of Holland to the French Empire Ruinous to the Prosperity of the Republic The people desire the Return of the Prince of Orange Confederacy to effect this Purpose The Allied Armies advance toward Holland The Nation rises to throw off the Yoke of France Count Styrum and his Associates lead on that Movement, and proclaim the Prince of Orange, who lands from England His first Proclamation His second Proclamation.
It is exactly for this reason that there is nothing more inconsistent with the dignity of man than to suffer violence, for violence effaces him. He who does violence to us disputes nothing less than our humanity; he who submits in a cowardly spirit to the violence abdicates his quality of man.
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