Caste in the organization of society not only induces absolutism at home, but also, and in this way is fully revealed its real but suppressed utilitarianism, invites conquest from abroad.
In the hands of Prince Metternich, the genius of reaction against French revolutionary ideas, this principle had become the most powerful weapon of absolutism and now threatened the subversion of popular institutions throughout Europe.
By October the constitutional party had been overthrown and absolutism reigned supreme once more in western Europe.
Such was the code of absolutism against which England protested and against which President Monroe delivered his declaration.
Polemic writing like this is odious; but with absolutism in possession in so many quarters, omission to defend my radical empiricism against its best known champion would count as either superficiality or inability.
To speak more seriously, the one fundamental quarrel Empiricism has with Absolutism is over this repudiation by Absolutism of the personal and aesthetic factor in the construction of philosophy.
There can be no doubt that when men are reduced to their last sick extremity absolutism is the only saving scheme.
It lacks prestige in consequence; whereas absolutism has a certain prestige due to the more radical style of it.
Between the two extremes of crude naturalism on the one hand and transcendental absolutism on the other, you may find that what I take the liberty of calling the pragmatistic or melioristic type of theism is exactly what you require.
Absolutism has a certain sweep and dash about it, while the usual theism is more insipid, but both are equally remote and vacuous.
Had absolutism been firmly rooted in Virginia, the Stuart Kings might have tried to set it up in all the colonies.
Had absolutism won in England, its victory in the colony would have been certain.
The age of Stephen was at an end, the Norman absolutism was once more established, and the influence of the time of anarchy and weakness was felt no longer.
It may seem strange at the present day that the absolutism of the king did not bring about a widespread rebellion earlier than it did.
Such facts as these, combined with the uncompromising character of Anselm, are more striking evidence of the absolutism of the Norman monarchy than anything which occurred in the political world during this period.
The absolutism which his work threatened later kings came but little nearer achieving, and the danger soon passed away, but the centralization which he gave the state grew into a permanent and beneficent organization.
A new conflict seemed to be shaping itself--a struggle of absolutismagainst democracy, of America against Europe.
He, with Fenelon, and perhaps with Racine, makes seem less abrupt the transition in France from the age of absolutism to the age of revolt and final revolution.
In an instant he was gone, but in that instant the Gibraltar of the Marne, the rock against which the flood of absolutism rolled and broke, fixed his eyes upon the place where I stood.
Gas was "made in Germany"; Autocracy and Absolutismare its parents.
The Papacy had stood forabsolutism in state as well as church.
Canon Trevor says of the wave of revolt against absolutism that passed over Europe: "It is worthy of observation that only those nations which eschewed popery were able to resist the tide.
But the reign of sainthood coupled with absolutism is apt to grow irksome, and it was with relief that the Romans hailed the election of Hugo Buoncompagno as Gregory XIII.
Neville Figgis, having snatched from Treitschke the juxtaposition "Luther and Machiavelli," has labored to build up around it a theory by which these two men shall appear as the chief supports of absolutism and "divine right of kings.
But when reaction came in Germany, as in Italy, Prussia did not, like Piedmont, stand out for freedom and make itself the model State of Germany; on the contrary she reverted to her old military absolutism at the first opportunity.
Yet what looked like the end of bureaucratic absolutism proved to be the destruction of the revolutionary party.
FN#19] In every country of Europe the party of freedom and reform was the national party, the party of reaction and absolutism was the Spanish party, leaning on Spain, looking to her for help.
Deadly absolutism blighted her early and her later growth.
Sidenote] Critique ofabsolutism (intellectualism) and of aesthetic relativism.
It was in truth a "Reign of Terror" by an absolutism standing upon the ruin of every rival.
It was, rather, the intention of the framers of the Instrument to prevent that Parliamentary absolutism which had proved so hurtful in the later years of the Long Parliament.
The privy council aroused a certain degree of reverence, both because it was established on the introduction of absolutism into Denmark in 1660, and because it had always consisted of members of the highest aristocracy.
It was forbidden at court to speak to or answer him, in order to prevent any unpleasant expressions of that absolutism which still nominally existed.
Fast as the spirit of freedom raised its head, it was cowed by absolutism and the powerful machinery {225} of a Government that used the wild Cossacks to overawe the hot theories of defenceless students.
General sympathy with the revolutionary spirit was abroad in 1848, when the tyrant Metternich resigned and acknowledged that the day of absolutism was over.
He shut his eyes to the passing of absolutism in Europe and died, as he had reigned, the protector of the Orthodox Church of Russia, the sworn foe of revolutionaries.
The severe blow given toabsolutism and exclusive privilege in church and state settled forever the theory of the divine right of kings and prelates to govern.
It taught thatabsolutism of any class, if unchecked, must lead sooner or later to the destruction of all authority.
The result of these councils was merely to confirm the absolutism of papal authority.
In so doing he establishedabsolutism once more in France.
