What matters it if a people be Roman Catholic or Protestant, Mohammedan or Buddhist, monarchic or republican, provided it buys, sells, takes part in the economic unity of the modern world?
The greatest danger, therefore, to the monarchic and aristocratic constitution of the State arises from the insidious advance of the French revolutionary dogma of equality.
The old German monarchic institutions are good enough for Germany.
To realize the full significance of the judgment, one must remember that Count de Maistre was a fanatic supporter of the old monarchic order.
But the fact remains that unity can be best achieved under a monarchic form of government, which concentrates all powers into the hands of the responsible monarch.
Those thirty and odd years were a sort of dull season in Europe--an extraordinarily uneventful period, during which the republican idea was growing, and during which the monarchic idea was decaying.
But the material of monarchic opposition was stronger elsewhere than in Italy.
Hitherto changes have occurred in the internal government of nations: the monarchic or popular feeling has found its expression in the alternate elevation of the Kingly or Parliamentary power.
It was thought hard that descent from that champion of monarchic authority and hereditary right should be pleaded as a title to a crown dependent on the popular choice.
For though Charlemagne, seated in his great hall at Aix-la-Chapelle, gave laws to the whole of his vast domains, in each country he had assumed to himself nothing more than the monarchic power.
Bronze Henri looks on, from his Pont-Neuf; the Monarchic Louvre, Medicean Tuileries see a day not theretofore seen.
Did not the Versailles Municipality (an old Monarchic one, not yet refounded into a Democratic) instantly second the proposal?
Already the Mother of Patriotism, sitting in the Jacobins, shines supreme over all; and has paled the poor lunar light of that Monarchic Club near to final extinction.
Which loaves, however, a Municipality of Monarchic temper will not give.
They even produced, or quoted, a written order from our Versailles Municipality,--which is a Monarchic not a Democratic one.
The opposition in Germany between the monarchic and the democratic principle, if not more marked than it was twenty or thirty years ago, is manifesting itself over a wider and perhaps deeper area.
At one moment his criticisms have an air of condemning the monarchic principle, at another they point to his being a pillar of the ancient system of things.
Another ground for hostility to the Crown was and is the sufficiently solid one of its cost; but here again the spectacle of the financial corruption in leading Republics has tended to damp down anti-monarchic feeling.
The social difference between Greece and the monarchic civilizations was after all only one of degree: there, as elsewhere, the social problem was finally unsolved; and the limits to Greek progress were soon approached.
It might take the form either of a guarded skepticism or of a monarchic theology, answering to the organization of the actual earthly empire; and the latter view, in the nature of the case, would much the more easily gain ground.
Much of our public organization for efficiency is essentially monarchic in its tendency.
A monarchic form may be executively more efficient than a democratic form; a despotic form may be more efficient than either.
The town, one of the youngest in Syria and now of small importance, did not become a great city by the natural circumstances of commerce, but was a creation of monarchic policy.
It clings not only to monarchic prerogatives, but to ecclesiastical supremacy.
Preserve the pages in our family annals, they are the irrefutable witnesses of the religious fanaticism of those days of ignorance, under clerical domination and monarchic despotism.
By family tradition, and on principle, I am attached to the monarchicform of government.
Here then, besides the democratic and the aristocratic elements, we have a distinct monarchic element standing out clearly in our earliest glimpses of Teutonic political life.
Let us first trace the origin and growth of the power of the supreme leader, in other words, the monarchic element, the kingly power.
Henry Sidney, his sister's husband, introduced civilisation and monarchic institutions into Wales, and was selected to extend them in Ireland.
In Scotland the efforts made by all the monarchic powers of this period in common were not so successful as in the rest of Europe.
I was with it on these two leading points: I had no monarchic faith, no affection nor regrets for any prince; I felt called upon to defend no cause save that of liberty and the dignity of mankind.
Rulhiere would have belonged to the monarchic and ultra-conservative party if he had belonged to any, and especially if Changarnier had not been in the world; but he was a soldier who only thought of remaining Minister for War.
But they hissed when one of the tools of the regents showed himself in public, and even staid men applauded when an actor utteredan anti-monarchic sentence or an allusion against Pompeius.
Ah, this was no longer the time of monarchic splendors, paid for out of the sweat of an enslaved people!
But the purpose of Hobbes being always substantially political and regulative, his unfaith in the current religion is only incidentally revealed in the writings in which he seeks to show the need for keeping it under monarchic control.
And the power so divided weakened the monarchic energy without adding to the liberties of the people.
But these vices of Athens are the vices of all eminent states, monarchic or republican--for they are the vices of the powerful.
It was the chiefs who were the visible agents in the encroachments on the monarchic power--it was an aristocracy that succeeded monarchy.
His Considerations sur le Gouvernement de la France was a very advanced study on the possibility of combining with a monarchicform of government democratic principles and local self-government.
