Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 edition. Excerpt: ... CHARLES VON TtOTTECK, LL.D. PROFESSOR Ie ToE UeIVERSITY OF FREIBURG, AULIo oOUeSELLOR, MEMBER OF ToE ooAMBER OF DEPUTIES OF ToE GRAeD DUooY OF BADEe, &o. &o. FOURTH BOOK. MODERN HISTORY. SECOND PART. FROo THE COooENCEoENT OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION TO THE PRESEeT TIoE. --17117 TO 1840. THIRD PERIOD OF MODERN HISTORY. (ninth Period Op General History.) History Of The French Revolution, From 1789 To 1830. INTRODUCTION. IMPORTANCE AND CHARACTER OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.--COMPARISON WITH THE REFORMATION., There is no greater event than the French revolution, and indeed hardly one equally great, in the history of the world. The old empires of the world were, it is true, founded and overthrown with noise, and these changes were felt far, and for a long course of years; but they were rather the result of physical forces than the effect of those of intellect, and even in this last hypothesis, they were produced only by the forces of reason, and for the gratification of common passions, such as avidity for plunder, love of glory or dominion, but not by moral motives, not by the power of ideas. In the foundation of the universal monarchy of Mohammed and Hildebrand, and in the Crusades, we discover, it is true, the action of ideas; but it is the action of ideas of fanaticism and superstition. The establishment of Christianity, finally, as well as the great inventions of writing and printing, have indeed produced manifold changes in the world; but these changes were effected either gradually and silently, or in complication with many other events which were rolled on by the stream of time. The French revolution, on the contrary, shook suddenly and omnipotently the part of the world on which it was born; it also hurled its thunders to all oth
