Observations on the Social and Political State of the European People in 1848 and 1849: Being the Second Series of the Notes of a TravellerLongman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1850 - 534 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 185 - All this machinery of functionarism, with its numerous ranks and gradations in every district, filled with a staff of clerks and expectants in every department looking for employment, appointments, or promotions, was intended to be a new support of the throne in the new social state of the Continent; a third class, in close connection with the people by their various official duties of interference in all public or private affairs, yet attached by their interests to the kingly power.
الصفحة 27 - ... skill, who pay those increased rents, are also making greater profits, as well as their landlords higher rents, it is evident that the land is now sending greater quantities of food to market, that there is a corresponding improvement, in short, in the productiveness of the land; and Swift or Burke has told us that he is a benefactor of mankind, and has accomplished a great improvement for society, who makes two ears of corn grow where only one grew before. But softly. Let us examine this proposition....
الصفحة 395 - All that men have of civil, political, and religious freedom in the present age may be clearly traced, in the history of every country, to the working and effects of the independent power of the Church of Rome over the property, social economy, movement, mind, and intelligence of all connected with her in the social body " (Observations on Europe, 1850, p.
الصفحة 184 - Every imaginable and real social interest," says Mr. Laing, " religion, education, law, police, every branch of public or private business, personal liberty to move from place to place, even from parish to parish within the same jurisdiction ; liberty to engage in any branch of trade or industry, on a small or large scale, all the objects, in short, in which body, mind, and capital can be employed in civilized society, were gradually laid hold of for the employment and support of functionaries, were...
الصفحة 184 - Voltaire says, somewhere, that, "the art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third".
الصفحة 249 - ... system is thus put by Mr. Laing, though we think he somewhat unfairly omits to state how much this is obviated, or rather mitigated, by the diffusion of education through the whole people, and through the ranks of the army also. " The demoralisation of the youth of a nation by three years' service in a regiment of the line is one of the greatest evils of the system. Soldiers are not necessarily immoral men ; but the enlisted soldier engaged for life, or for a long term of years, is generally...
الصفحة 196 - ... to appeal to, which is entirely independent of the executive, the legislature, or the department in which he serves. . . . The system works well in the limited circle of Norwegian affairs. We see functionaries speaking, voting, writing, and taking a leading place in opposition to or in favour of the measures of Government, as freely as other people ; and during the reign of Bernadotte, which was a perpetual struggle to undermine or overturn the Constitution, and establish autocracy, this independent...
الصفحة 199 - ... manufacturers, or merchants, with the little capital he could give them, and who in the same social position with us, would undoubtedly put out his sons in some branch of industry, sends them, almost invariably, to study at a university in order to be qualified for office. After the bread-studies, as they are called in Germany, are gone through, the young man hangs on, often for many years, an idle expectant on office, and may possibly get some employment at last in a government bureau, at a...
الصفحة 398 - Sweden, Denmark, Prussia, and all the Protestant states of Germany are, at this day, in all that regards freedom in social action, freedom of mind and opinion, more enslaved than they were in the middle of the middle ages. The union of Church and State has established an irresponsible power in the hands of the sovereigns, adverse to civil and religious liberty.
الصفحة 240 - Landsturm consists of all not in the the service, or discharged from it by the completion of their terms of service in the other divisions ; and it is mustered and organised as well as the other divisions of the Landwehr force. The principle of the system is, that every Prussian subject, without exception, shall pass through a military training of three years, in the ranks of a regiment of the line, and shall then be available during his whole life as a trained soldier, in one or other of the divisions...