The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-03-05

OF GREAT PERIOD
|,,,.,, Helloc's Brief History Of the
French Revolution IL Most H.
Eliminating Study.

ttt IT'At+" \ a ~ - q
ana thousht-provoking account Of a
,,cfad which can never cease To be
,ul'h rcStudYinG.
Tho aithol is particularly vel fit
Ca, for his task. He is a literary
.nr5g-TrenchmAn. better able than
rr..usn historians to sec the French
.Doint. and al the same time hc-
.,aa,ntrd with the English views of
French history. lie is a Catholic, INC
th.rIorc able to understand why
mama patriotic catholics opposed the
Isolation. but he is none the less
u hearty political sympathy with the
n4ua.ti lhcory Of the Revolution.
- Ii p~-rSonal considerations says
~ ,.Ihor concerning himself. have
:. rMaps enabled him to treat the mat
i.r more thoroughly than it might
A.. = hc,I. treated by n who reject
.i other i.epubllcanism upon the
one hand. or Catholicism upon the
otu,r. bat he believes that no per-
xonal an.i therefore exaggerated note
ms t"-n allowed to intrude upon his
lie, option ~ what ia 2 definite piece
81 objective history lyino in the field
81 record rather than IN that Of
opinion Mr.. Bclloc, be it added, is
., uAiur,t historian, having written
.iuli..s of IlAnton. iiohespierre, and
Marie .t~ntoinettr, besides other works.
Iho ~:itcr has made specially in
n = Stius the passages IN which he
a,erfSsn+ The political history Of the
U~.t.olution. the leading revolutionary
,!@r.ri-fs. the military aspect Of the
49, r%iOlinr. ana the relation between
~ ,>lholic church and the Ecvolu-
Mup.alg government.
10 tEc political theory OF the Ecvo-
,dtluH. Ahich MIR. I:clloc charactcrizeS
Us "~aniNcrSAl, eternal, and true he
has gwen AN entire chapter, 4 most
interesting one. The second chapter,
frn pages, he deNOteS to Rousseau,
Who's, "cnntrat Social ne considers
*lh. direct source OF the theory Of
'br modern state Their lucidity
t1't unmatched Of diction;
]htir rigid ANALYSIS. their ~epiSraInauc
i1d49uvnt and wiSdom--thcse .are the
reservoirs from when modern democ-
reN ;aS flowed; what are now proved
- ~ Ia" errors OF democracy are
lrIur, l"tinst whicn the 'Con,rat So
,itF warmed mon; the moral apology
- democracy is the moral apology
Vll}ten hY i~toIs@eau.'
ta cnaulcr III, The Characters Of
1852. l;r oiution,' Mr.. Belize gives !;
- and Interesting group Of pie
tgr Kline Louis XVI. the Queer
N''st1tA. La Fayctto. Dun1ouriez
faHtnn. t,rnot. Marat, Rohcspierre
I}rse sA"tchas. and particularly those
~ Nsral"au and E~obespicrrc, are iT
.'e particulars the most striking
l'.tt oi '1c book.
tilaptc!S ~, ', AND VI are entitled
IH" lhaseS of the iteNolution,' The
N!ti'aTN Inspect of the Revolutions
AMT The Revolution and the CathOli,
'IBrcu. The last gives an interest
thi; tld apparently a sound explana'
Lon. oi tHt quarrel between the Ncvo
iaii@u aud the Church, briefly As fol
i""S: th.l The Revolution foun'
'"thai'r religion Ut q low b il
France. and that the civil constitu
SON of -" clergy enacted by the M
1"'s. AeUvmhly Was . fatal blundcI
Tin yeiy fact that the aemocrati
.lppe'u,ur had come after n pcrio,
~ Nu(nith. and was non-Catholic il
.t> @priu.s, would have tended to pro
d"t lh1t Gearrel. SO would til
t,,r--lrt attachment of the Catholi