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- Title: Two Treatises on the Acquisition and Use of Power (Essay)
- Author : Modern Age
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 195 KB
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Some cultural historian of the future, some future Gibbon, will record the decline and fall of a once-great nation, how it lost contact with its founding documents and with the spiritual traditions that animated its growth and how it succumbed to the siren song of a charismatic leader who led it to its dissolution in a visionary, multicultural, universal democracy. As the United States in a troubled time faces a questionable future, we instinctively turn to the past to determine in the light of similar circumstances what the future may portend. To the untutored eye, studies of the past with reference to the future, although always an active literary genre, seem to be appearing with greater frequency. Remi Brague has employed his significant command of medieval history to explore the relation that prevailed among Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages, with an eye on the current European effort to integrate an Islamic influx from the Middle East and North Africa. (1) Adrian Goldsworthy has produced a new study of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, and though he disclaims any thought of relevance to the present, he cannot avoid reference to the United States and even cites his participation in a seminar of established historians organized by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment under American sponsorship. After chronicling the course of the Roman Empire from its peak at the death of Marcus Aurelius in 180 to the abortive effort of the Eastern Empire to recapture its lost territories in the sixth century, Goldsworthy, in his conclusion, assures the reader that the United States is not of necessity destined to repeat the Roman decline. (2) Paul A. Rahe has produced a study of Montesquieu on war, religion, and commerce that he clearly regards as relevant to contemporary political discourse. (3)