Alexander Hamilton: A Study of the Revolution and the Union; An Address Delivered Before the Students of the University of Michigan, December 10, 1880 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Alexander Hamilton: A Study of the Revolution and the Union; An Address Delivered Before the Students of the University of Michigan, December 10, 1880

It is thus that the local and limited influence of man, combining with the general tides Of causation which pulsate through all times and conditions, becomes a factor in the history of his own and succeeding ages. He is a special cause attached to the side of a larger cause and cobperat ing with it in directing and controlling the events. Of his epoch. He is the individual atom in the tides Of fate - the personal impulse in the general destinies of the world.

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Excerpt from Alexander Hamilton: A Study of the Revolution and the Union; An Address Delivered Before the Students of the University of Michigan, December 10, 1880

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Revolutions, like all other social phenomena, are evolved out of preexisting conditions. They spring from the action of antecedent forces. When these forces are present the revolution follows as naturally and inevitably as a conflagration bursts forth from the impact of heat with combustibles. In the seemingly irregular course of human society certain tendencies appear; they gather head; they become confluent with other tendencies of a like or contradictory nature; they break the barriers which are imposed to restrain them, and sweep away the political outlines of the past. It is thus that the old forms of society are uprooted, that old institutions are prostrated in the dust, and that old customs are destroyed. Without the antecedent forces, no revolution can exist, any more than an uncaused phenomenon can be found in physical nature. With the preexisting conditions, the revolution is as sure to appear as the sun is to rise, or the tides to follow the moon. It must be understood as a primary truth that the political cataclysms and social disturbances of mankind occur in obedience to a law which prevails alike in the plant, the animal, and the man - the law of progress by evolution, involving the destruction of the old form by the undergrowth of the new.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.