The Modern Regime
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781419174407
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); History: World; History; History - General History; France; Europe - France
First sentence: After the centralizing and invading State has taken hold of local societies there is nothing left for it but to cast its net over moral societies[7], and this second haul is more important than the first one; for, if local societies are based on the proximity of physical bodies and habitations, the latter are formed out of the accord which exists between minds and souls; in possessing these, the hold is no longer on the outside but on the inside of man, his thought, his will; the incentive within is laid hold of, and this directly; then only can he be fully mastered, and disposed of at discretion.