Word: machiavellis
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...with perennial precision, these words seem the utterances of an oracle. Yet an oracle can have its tongue in its cheek, as Croesus discovered. Indeed, the sincerity of the editor of the jade journal for jaded tastes has long been a moot question. To assume the clear of a Machiavelli in serious, sane, and democratic America is to insure some notoriety. Mr. Meneken often prefer being exactly notorious to being notoriously exact. Perhaps the need of American politics is a manual of malfeasance, of the psychology of political pragmatism, perhaps not. For, although the Machiavellian side of political theory will...
...Story, based on a comedy by Niccolo Machiavelli, translated into English by Alfred Kreymborg, concerns an old Italian merchant who believes that he is capable of becoming a father but has evidence that his young and beautiful wife, Beatrice, cannot become a mother without miraculous ministration, therapeutic aid or both. Now Beatrice is loved by an amorous nobleman, also young, who disguises himself as a doctor and comes, at her husband's request, to treat her with Mandragola, a root whose properties, the noble leech insists, will permit the aged merchant to realize his ambition, at least...
Without provoking much dispute as to substance, Premier Mussolini's recent comment on Machiavelli's "Prince" invites generalization on the differences in the political and social outlook of the Anglo-Saxon and of the Latin. Mussolini's ideas may be looked upon as fairly typical of the latter Lincoln has been pointed out as one of the best interpreters of the former. And the vast gulf between the conclusions of such men can signify nothing other than a complete difference in methods and equipment...
...races to Characterize the Latins as foolish, sentimental people, and to consider themselves as particularly rational and practical; and this delusion is still widely popular. Nothing, of course, could be further from the truth. It is the Latin who looks at the realities of life, and who, arguing like Machiavelli and Mussolini, from what man is, decide what government must be. It is the Anglo-Saxon who commences with an abstraction, an ideal conception of what ought to be, and finally shapes his state upon opportunity, according to theory. And as to sentiment, almost everyone knows that the English...
...study of "H. G. Wells and the Socialist Aristocracy" is clear, concise, and in all respects convincing, if only we assume--like the writer--that the peculiar brand of socialism which Wells has adopted for literary purposes is really to be reckoned with as propaganda. Wells's "New Machiavelli," which Mr. Henderson is using for his text in this study, seems hardly to merit such earnest criticism...