ABSTRACT
What an interesting commentary is the mournful publication before people upon the introductory portions of the famous History of Civilization, by the same writer, in which he compliments France upon its being the centre and source of civilization for the world. He proceeds, upon this assumption, to assert that even where the ideas and institutions which promote civilization, first had their birth in foreign countries, they have yet found it necessary, before they could bear their proper fruits, 'to undergo in France a new preparation'. The United States of America are universally admitted to be the model of a Republic and a Democracy. M. Guizot apprehends from the democratic republic nothing but a social war. The names it assumes, and the principles it upholds, tend to increase his anxiety. These seem to lead directly to revolutionary despotism. Neither peace nor liberty, he asseverates, can result from such a condition.
