Within the din of self-interested political rhetoric, however, several voices stand out as examples of thoughtful cultural and political analysis. Much of the controversy fell along predictably self-interested party lines-those who supported the traditional hierarchies of the English aristocracy claimed their traditional "right" to power and authority those from the disenfranchised "lower orders" pointed to the structural inequities in the traditional hierarchy that undermined their "right" to better their own lot (let alone influence the government of their own country). ![]() ![]() The months and years following the French Revolution in 1789 saw an intense political debate in England. Never, never more shall we behold the generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. ![]() ![]() I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
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