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It is the program of men who saw in the Revolution only a great epochal political advance. In this it reflects its bourgeois origin. With the exception of the right to organize unions and strikes which is a political measure not one of the important economic demands peculiar to the working class is met in the program.
These are mainly the transmissions of heredity, and the environments that are racial, temporal, epochal, or local. This enduring tendency is foreshadowed in the following extracts: "August 2, 1843. I have been thinking much of late about the very great influence which nationality and the family progenitors have upon character.
There is a convenient little biography of Montesquieu by Albert Sorel, Eng. trans. by Gustave Masson , and useful monographs by J. C. Collins, Bolingbroke, a Historical Study; and Voltaire in England . Such epochal works as Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws, Voltaire's Letters on the English and Philosophical Dictionary, and Rousseau's Social Contract and Emile, are readily procurable in English.
It goes from the wooing of a nation to the wooing of a race, from Jew distinctively to Roman representatively, from Annas standing in God's flood light rejected to Pilate in nature's lesser light obscured, from God's truant messenger nation to the world's mighty ruling nation. In the epochal event just at hand Jesus begins His great wooing of a race.
A chance acquaintance formed by Daniel Boone, during the French and Indian War, with the Irish lover of adventure, John Findlay, was the origin of Boone's cherished longing to reach the El Dorado of the West. In this slight incident we may discern the initial inspiration for the epochal movement of westward expansion.
At least we hear the rumblings of their marches and the far shoutings of their aimless victories until within a century or two of the Christian era. Then, what was Italy like in the heyday of the Etruscans, or under the Roman kings? The fall of Tarquin an Etruscan was much more epochal, much more disastrous, than Livy guessed.
In his ermine, surrounded by his stalwart barons, Robert would probably have learned no lesson from the weaving of filmy webs. Alone and in peril, it taught him how to conquer. To us, alone and in peril, this diary assumed an epochal importance entirely out of kelter with its face value.
But in between the battered covers and the exquisite Florentine hand-tooling there ranged a row of mediocre books; and it was among these that Elsa found that her instinct was not wholly infallible, as will be seen. To-day she was facing the first problem of her young life, epochal. She was, as it were, to stop and begin life anew. And she didn't know, she wasn't sure.
In this ambition he was not disappointed, for in the War of the Third Coalition he received important assistance from these three states, all of which were in turn liberally rewarded for their services, the rulers of Bavaria and Wuerttemberg being proclaimed kings. The year 1806 was epochal in German history.
The simple experiments thus inaugurated led to no fewer than two hundred thousand recorded observations regarding the weather, which formed the basis for some of the most epochal discoveries in meteorology, as we have seen. But this was only a beginning.
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