There was a doctrine to rock the foundations of all accredited political theory.

With ruthless logic he brushed aside the ancient varieties of both radical and conservative thought; had erased all distinction in principle between free and despotic politics:

had put it down that divine, feudal right, historical right, natural right and constitutional right equally and like were rubbish and nonsense.

There was no right to rule and no right to be free, there was only the fact of power and the circumstances which made that power a fact."

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