[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Bkmrk

[CondorFlight]

Today’s left has forgotten the lessons of the French Revolution and the Russian revolution; history will just repeat itself, as it always does, because mankind never learns from history...

[Tijeras_Slim]

Carlyle was a nut job.

[Verginius Rufus]

Isn't there a theory that Mill destroyed the manuscript and made up the story that the maid did it?

It reminds me of the 1948 Democratic primary which Lyndon Johnson won by 87 votes, after initially losing by 113 votes. The outcome changed because of an additional 201 votes found in one county. Remarkably, the voters had voted in alphabetical order, all but one for LBJ, but unfortunately the list got thrown away by the maid before it could be examined by investigators.

[Paine in the Neck]

I've been wading through Carlysle's tome. It's heavy going. Never was a man so impressed by his own gas-baggery.

Hippolyte Taine's volumes on the same subject are much more approachable and informative. And free on Gutenberg.org: Hippolyte Taine - The French Revolution - vol. 1

[jroehl]

I love Free Republic because of posts like this.