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Reviews

?Dr. Carlyle knows more about the history of political ideas than any living Englishman, and this book has all the virtues we are entitled to expect from him. Its learning is solid, its common sense profound, and it is impossible not to admire the easy mastery with which a difficult and complicated evolution is handled with almost equal ability in every century from Cicero to the French Revolution.?-Manchester Guardian

"Dr. Carlyle knows more about the history of political ideas than any living Englishman, and this book has all the virtues we are entitled to expect from him. Its learning is solid, its common sense profound, and it is impossible not to admire the easy mastery with which a difficult and complicated evolution is handled with almost equal ability in every century from Cicero to the French Revolution."-Manchester Guardian