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Moral Effects of Revolutions
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essity of witnessing so much bloodshed-the hearths and the very graves of their fathers polluted by the slaughter of their countrymen-the acharnement which characterises civil contests (as always the quarrels of friends are the fiercest)-and the license of wrong which is bred by war and the majesties of armies. Doubtless this is part of the explanation. But is this all? Mr. Coleridge has referred to this subject in The friend; but, to the best of my remembrance, only noticing it as a fact. Fichte, the celebrated German philosopher, has given us his view of it (Idea of War); and it is so ingenious, that it deserv
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1 Preface2 A Brief Appraisal of the Greek Literature3 The German Language, and Philosophy of Kant4 Moral Effects of Revolutions5 Prefigurations of Remote Events6 Measure of Value7 Letter in Reply to Hazlitt Concerning the Malthusian Doctrine of Population8 The Services of Mr. Ricardo to the Science of Political Economy, briefly and plainly stated9 Education10 Abstract of Swedenborgianism11 Sketch of Professor Wilson12 The Lake Dialect13 Storms in English History14 The English in India15 On Novels16 De Quincey's Portrait17 The English in China18 Shakspere's Text.-Suetonius Unravelled19 How to Write English20 The Casuistry of Duelling21 The Love-charm22 Ludwig Tieck23 Last Will and Testament24 The Household Wreck25 Mr. Schnackenberger26 Anglo-german Dictionaries