Political Science: Or the State Theoretically and Practically Considered (Classic Reprint)
(Qmtinued. THE STATE. PRACTICAL POLITICS. CHAPTER IV. ARIS...)
Qmtinued. THE STATE. PRACTICAL POLITICS. CHAPTER IV. ARISTOCRACY. 177. History offers us few examples of aristocratical states Aristocracy and Compared with the number of nations ruled by aristocracies. I cings, and of those few the greater part have been short-lived and transitory. Most of these examples are supplied by small communities which erelong changed their forms of government and became democracies, or were merged into monarchies. Some have taken the opposite course ;the principle of monarchy becoming weak, gave way, as we have seen, to a powerful nobility, who broke it up into fragments, until, in a new state of things, they could not maintain themselves against the impulse towards a stronger, more national government. We are entitled, by deductions from history, to lay down the principle that aristocracy is ordinarily capable of no long continuance, when it is the sole governing, or by far the strongest power in the state. A body of nobles, equals, rivals, jealous, cannot act with any long concert, and are not adequate to the demands made upon them by the administration of a large country. They VOL. II.
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