The French Revolution and the Rise of Napoleon (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The French Revolution and the Rise of Napoleon Ages, which had been so long dominant in every sphere of human thought and action, a movement, intellectual and spiritual, has been in progress, which permits itself neither to be permanently checked by restric tions imposed from without nor limited by arbitrarily drawn bounds. Once set free from implicit faith in traditional authority, the human mind began to put to the test all that came within its ken, and to look no longer to revelation for an answer to the questions constantly arising, but to the verdicts of its own judgment. Philosophy burst asunder the fetters of dogma, and took possession of the throne from which it had driven theology. As men's attention was directed more and more to the natural, instead of to the supernatural, new fields, before undreamed of, disclosed themselves for investigation. \vith unparalleled boldness and certitude science traced out for itself the immutable principles that were to guide it for all time. No sooner had Newton demonstrated that one rule of law pervaded the universe, than the various sciences began to emerge from their isolation and to unite in one all - comprehensive system. English thinkers were the first to apply, with unsparing rigor, the newly discovered criticism to religion as well as to the state, and, in substituting easily understood conceptions for the unfathomable mystery of faith, became the founders of a natural religion while, in setting up the inherent and inalienable rights of man in opposition to the divine right of kings, they inaugurated a new era in the political development of mankind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.