Identifier: historyofallnati18wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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regarded as the special object; it was consideredby them as the means for a social transformation, for a proportion-ate division of burden and gain, for the complete estal)lishment ofequality. Yet not till the principle was set forth by young LouisBlanc (Fig. 63), If the condition of the lower classes of laboringmen is to be improved, they must acquire political influence in orderto be able to secure the fulfilment of their demands, was therean actual league concluded between the socialists and the republi-cans ; and on this account the masses became republican, for onlythe republic leads to an equalization of property and of orders; italone can make over the goods of the proprietors who do not labor tothe laborers who have no possessions. Lamartines history of theGirondists, which invested the men of blood and the Terror of 1793 LAMARTJNR. 299 with a halo of lomanüc interest, iieightened tlie revolutioiiarv flame.Thanks to the resistless charm of its descriptions, it aided more than
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