OF

POLITICAL ETHICS,

DESIGNED CHIEFLY

FOR THE USE OF COLLEGES AND STUDENTS AT LAW.

Lex, communis reipublicæ sponsio.-SENECA.

BY

FRANCIS LIEBER, LL.D.,

CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE, ETC.;

ON CIVIL LIBERTY AND SELF-GOVERNMENT," "PRINCIPLES OF LEGAL AND
POLITICAL INTERPRETATION," ETC., ETC.

VOL. II.

SECOND EDITION, REVISED.

EDITED BY THEODORE D. WOOLSEY.

PHILADELPHIA:

J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.

LONDON: TRÜBNER & CO.

1875-

THENDWN
PUBLIC LIK
153715

ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.
1883

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by MATILDA LIEBER,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

CONTENTS.

BOOK III.

CHAPTER IV.

Ambition. Its various Manifestations.-Is it radically bad?—Political

Apathy a great Evil.-Political Ingratitude.-Jealousy.-Political Mod-

esty.-Self-Esteem.-Vanity.-Titles without Office, and External Dis-

tinctions, such as Ribbons. - The Chinese. - De Ruiter. - Personal

Affection.-Friendship: in ancient Times; in modern.-Its high Value.

-Epaminondas.-Abuse of Friendship and of the Word.-Favoritism:

in Monarchies; in Ministers and all other Citizens.-Its ruinous Effects.

---Washington and Pym.-Family Affection.-Providing for Members

of the Family.-Papal Nepotism.-Its Character when highest

CHAPTER V.

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Gratitude fully discussed.-Ingratitude.-Excess of Gratitude aids Usurp-

ers.-Cæsar, Napoleon.-Distinction between Gratitude and Popularity.

-Popularity.-Sudden and Passing Popularity; Lasting Popularity.-

We have no Right to seek Popularity, but must suffer it to seek us.-

Power of spontaneous Popularity; peculiar Power of spontaneously re-

turned Popularity.-Slavery of Popularity.-Danger of Popularity, in

Free Countries, to the Individual.-Crowds to receive distinguished

Men. Great Danger of Personal Popularity for Liberty.-Pericles.—

Demagogues.-Athenian Demagogism.-Monuments.-The Duty of

Attention.-Observation of Primary Agents and Elements.-Truth and

Justice connected with it.-Obligation to study the History of our

Country, its Institutions and their Classical Periods. It is necessary in

modern Times to read Newspapers
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CHAPTER VI.

Continency. Political Evils of Incontinency; of Prostitution. The pri-

mary Foundation of Society, the Family, is undermined by it.-Evils of

general Incontinency in the highest Classes, and the lowest.-Religion.

-Its Universality. Its importance for Morality; for Society; for the

State.-Fanaticism.-Fanaticism of any kind.-Religious Fanaticism.-

The Bible.-Revelation.-Both exclusively religious.-Persecution.-