The Works of Orestes a Brownson, Collected and Arranged, Vol. 15 (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Henry Augustus Brownson

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ISBN 10 : 1330649540 ISBN 13 : 9781330649541

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Dr. Brownson, collected in these four vol umes, extend over a period of nearly forty years, from 1837 to 1875. They begin when the author was thirty-four years old, and end with his seventy-second year. When the earliest articles were written he belonged to the radical or movement party both in religion and politics. In those days he held that the people are infallible and humanity divine ;and the main object of his writing and preaching was to throw out views however crude and erroneous which he believed would stimulate thought and arouse intellectual activity. The truth, he said, would live, and the error perish. The infallible people would always be able to distinguish between them and accept only what is true. Accordingly there are many views and expressions to be found in the earlier writings originating, for the most part, in an erroneous theology, which the author afterwards repudiated, and which he exposed and combated in The Convert, The American Republic, and here and there in his other writings. But, as a general rule, his political opinions on all the great questions discussed, such as the origin and ground of govern ment, the evil tendency of popular democracy, the distinction between this and our American system of constitutional republicanism, and opposition to privilege and monopoly and class legislation, continued un altered through life. He had prior to 1837 embraced in its full extent the doctrine of the absolute sovereignty of the people in their own right, and had advocated the social as well as the civil and political equality of all men. His sympathies were always with the weaker class, with the wronged and the oppressed. Accordingly in 1830 he labored in support of what was called the Working-M ens party, though in a moral and social, rather than a political, aspect. From 1831 to 1837 he paid little or no attention to politics. The De
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330649540
• ISBN 13: 9781330649541
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 596
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