Excerpt from A History of Modern Liberty, Vol. 2The Secularist in Politics - Rationality Applied to Politics - Machiavelli Champion of the Modern Spirit - In¿uence of the Spirit of the Age - Machiavelli's Narrowness - The People as a Factor in Government - Its Capacity for Public Affairs - Admiration of Popular Govern ment - Machiavelli as Moralist - Republican Government a Failure Where Florence has Erred - No Idea of Progress - Machiavelli and More - More the Victim of Arbitrary Government - Contemporary Kings and Courtiers Utopia the Antithesis of The Prince Arbitrary Methods of Kings - Radical Reforms Demanded - Utopia a Democratic State - More the Champion of Religious Liberty - An Apostle of Modern Liberty - Sources of Chapter II.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.