The French Revolution
Hilaire Belloc
“It is, for that matter, self-evident that if one community decides in one fashion, another, also sovereign, in the opposite fashion, both cannot be right. Reasoning men have also protested, and justly, against the conception that what a majority in numbers, or even (what is more compelling still) a unanimity of decision in a community may order, may not only be wrong but may be something which that community has no authority to order since, though it possesses a civil and temporal authority, it acts against that ultimate authority which is its own consciousness of right. Men may and do justly protest against the doctrine that a community is incapable of doing deliberate evil; it is as capable of such an action as is an individual. But men nowhere do or can deny that the community acting as it thinks right is ultimately sovereign: there is no alternative to so plain a truth.”- Hilaire Belloc
Author - Hilaire Belloc.
Narrator - LibriVox Community.
Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.
Location:
United States
Description:
“It is, for that matter, self-evident that if one community decides in one fashion, another, also sovereign, in the opposite fashion, both cannot be right. Reasoning men have also protested, and justly, against the conception that what a majority in numbers, or even (what is more compelling still) a unanimity of decision in a community may order, may not only be wrong but may be something which that community has no authority to order since, though it possesses a civil and temporal authority, it acts against that ultimate authority which is its own consciousness of right. Men may and do justly protest against the doctrine that a community is incapable of doing deliberate evil; it is as capable of such an action as is an individual. But men nowhere do or can deny that the community acting as it thinks right is ultimately sovereign: there is no alternative to so plain a truth.”- Hilaire Belloc Author - Hilaire Belloc. Narrator - LibriVox Community. Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.
Language:
English
Chapter 1
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Chapter 2
Duration:00:14:35
Chapter 3
Duration:00:15:45
Chapter 4
Duration:00:13:47
Chapter 5
Duration:00:13:07
Chapter 6
Duration:00:14:35
Chapter 7
Duration:00:13:45
Chapter 8
Duration:00:17:42
Chapter 9
Duration:00:19:03
Chapter 10
Duration:00:11:02
Chapter 11
Duration:00:14:31
Chapter 12
Duration:00:07:05
Chapter 13
Duration:00:10:53
Chapter 14
Duration:00:09:16
Chapter 15
Duration:00:09:19
Chapter 16
Duration:00:13:28
Chapter 17
Duration:00:10:37
Chapter 18
Duration:00:10:58
Chapter 19
Duration:00:08:28
Chapter 20
Duration:00:10:34
Chapter 21
Duration:00:13:00
Chapter 22
Duration:00:10:45
Chapter 23
Duration:00:11:50
Chapter 24
Duration:00:10:43
Chapter 25
Duration:00:09:56
Chapter 26
Duration:00:11:04
Chapter 27
Duration:00:10:32
Chapter 28
Duration:00:09:49
Chapter 29
Duration:00:10:37
Chapter 30
Duration:00:07:21
Chapter 31
Duration:00:11:10
Chapter 32
Duration:00:10:25
Chapter 33
Duration:00:10:37
Chapter 34
Duration:00:11:03
Chapter 35
Duration:00:12:16
Chapter 36
Duration:00:13:02