Название: The Ancient Regime
Автор: Taine Hippolyte
Издательство: Bookwire
Жанр: Языкознание
isbn: 4057664640017
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IV. Rousseau's Philosophy Spreads And Takes HOLD.
Aspects of the country and of the peasantry.
IV. The Peasant Becomes Landowner.
CHAPTER II. TAXATION THE PRINCIPAL CAUSE OF MISERY.
Four direct taxes on the common laborer.
IV. Collections And Seizures.—Observe the system actually at work. It
Why taxation is so burdensome.—Exemptions and privileges.
VIII. Complaints In The Registers 5272 .
CHAPTER III. INTELLECTUAL STATE OF THE PEOPLE.
IV. Insurrectionary leaders and recruits
II. The social organization is dissolved
III.--Direction of the current
I. Suicide of the Ancient Regime.
II.--Aspirations for the 'Great Revolution.'
INTRODUCTION
Why should we fetch Taine's work up from its dusty box in the basement of the national library? First of all because his realistic views of our human nature, of our civilization and of socialism as well as his dark premonitions of the 20th century were proven correct. Secondly because we may today with more accuracy call his work:
"The Origins of Popular Democracy and of Communism."
His lucid analysis of the current ideology remains as interesting or perhaps even more interesting than when it was written especially because we cannot accuse him of being part in our current political and ideological struggle.
Even though I found him wise, even though he confirmed my own impressions from a rich and varied life, even though I considered that our children and the people at large should benefit from his insights into the innermost recesses of the political Man, I still felt it would be best to find out why his work had been put on the index by the French and largely forgotten by the Anglo-Saxon world. So I consulted a contemporary French authority, Jean-François Revel who mentions Taine works in his book, "La Connaissance Inutile." (Paris 1988). Revel notes that a socialist historian, Alphonse Aulard methodically and dishonestly attacked "Les Origines..", and that Aulard was specially recruited by the University of Sorbonne for this purpose. Aulard pretended that Taine was a poor historian by finding a number of errors in Taine's work. This was done, says Revel, because the 'Left' came to see Taine's work as "a vile counter-revolutionary weapon." The French historian Augustin Cochin proved, however, that Aulard and not Taine had made the errors but by that time Taine had been defamed and his works removed from the shelves of the French universities.
Now Taine was not a professional СКАЧАТЬ