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, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

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An historian, therefore, who proposes to ex bibit the various changes which have occurred in the reciprocal connections of these states, must consequently regard them as a society of independent individuals, variously related to each other. A peculiar use of modern phrase, indeed, might designate such states by the name of mere machines, (an application of the term, which, in Europe, at least, is contradicted by the variety of the constitutions but if it be impossible to discipline an army into a mere machine, (and if this could be done none would ever retreat, ) can it be less difficult in the case of civil society?

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