Sublime

Bien qu’étant contemporains, ayant vécu l’un et l’autre à cheval sur le XVIe et le XVIIe siècle, Hugo Grotius, d’un côté, et Jean Bodin, de l’autre, expriment des positions diamétralement opposées sur le sujet qui nous intéresse. Si le premier justifie l’esclavage en se réclamant soit de l’autorité de la Bible, soit de celle d’Aristote, le second r

archives of Charles Scribner’s Sons, which are housed in the Princeton University Library.

The violence allowed him to promulgate a clear story, which the mainland press reinforced. Reformers pursuing prosperity, like him, were rational. Nationalists, by contrast, were lunatics.

The other source was Cicero’s province. While boasting, maybe correctly, that he had never broken the law in extorting money from the provincials, he still left Cilicia in 50 BCE with more than 2 million sesterces in local currency in his luggage. How exactly it was acquired is not certain: a combination perhaps of Cicero’s meanness with his expens

followed by a collection of medieval writings on memory by Thomas Aquinas, Albertus Magnus, Hugh of St. Victor, and Peter of Ravenna.

One million Europeans migrated to British America between 1600 and 1800 and two and a half million Africans were carried there by force

En y regardant de plus près, on s'aperçoit que l'antique orgueil de la noblesse a fait place à un autre, l'orgueil académique, qui a exercé son influence pendant trois siècles et qui ne reconnaissait qu'au seul latiniste, à l'homme sorti des universités, le droit de statuer sur ce qui est juste ou non, moral ou immoral. Les humanistes sont résolus