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THE POLITICAL SITUATION OF EUROPE.
ORGANIC NATURE’S RIDDLE.
A VERY OLD MASTER.
THE ORGANIZATION OF DEMOCRACY.
SIR WILLIAM SIEMENS.
A FRENCH DRAMA UPON ABELARD.
THE UNITY OF THE EMPIRE.
ODD QUARTERS.
SIR TRISTRAM DE LYONESSE.
OLD MYTHOLOGY IN NEW APPAREL.
OUTWITTED.
THE BANK OF ENGLAND.
EXPLORATION IN A NEW DIRECTION.
A RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHER ON ENGLISH POLITICS.
BLACKSTONE.
LITERARY NOTICES.
FOREIGN LITERARY NOTES.
MISCELLANY.
Eclectic Magazine
OF
FOREIGN LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART.
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| New Series. Vol. XLI., No. 5. | MAY, 1885. | Old Series complete in 63 vols. |
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THE POLITICAL SITUATION OF EUROPE.
BY F. NOBILI-VITELLESCHI, SENATOR OF ITALY.
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I.
It is a matter worthy of considerationwhy the progress which is in our time sounexpectedly rapid in all which concernsthe physical world, should be soslow, or rather so limited, in the sphereof morals. We might almost say that,like a line ascending in a spiral form,progress can in each historical periodonly be made within the given orbit inwhich the period itself revolves.
With respect to the two principalquestions which interest mankind in itscomplex—that is, in its political and social—existence,the orbit in which thehistorical period preceding our ownrevolved, as far as politics are concerned,circled round what we may termthe State, although this does not preciselycorrespond to our present conceptionof the word; and socially it re3volvedround an absolute system of proprietorship,