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Excerpt from A Manual of the History of the Political System of Europe and Its Colonies: From Its Formation at the Close of the Fifteenth Century to Its Re-Establishment Upon the Fall of Napoleon
While the author was thus employed in elaborating the history of the European states-system, he himself saw it over thrown in its most essential parts. Its history was in fact written upon its ruins. When was such a work ever executed under similar cir cumstances. 7 While, however, he has confined the range of his history so as to exclude the times immediately past, and not yet ripe for historical narration, l he yet hopes to have preserved a full view of the whole; in doing which he was perhaps favoured by his personal situation. Having been brought up in a very small, but happy free state, he passed the years of his manhood under a mild monarchical form of government, and was thus enabled' to bring to the study of history, some practical ideas, simme in their nature, but the result of his own observation; which, though perhaps dim for others, have served him as loadstars in his voy age through its territory. It only remains for him to say, that while he does not disown a certain degree of respect for the coun try to which he belongs, yet as he has never been a citizen of any of the principal states of Europe, he could never entertain a par tiality for any one of them in particular.
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