Word: overturning
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...standard. This action, he maintained, would not restore but would destroy confidence, because it would be a surprise and would maintain the ills at present existing. The policy of the country for twenty years has been steadily tending toward international bimetallism. To change this policy would cause an entire overturn in politics and finance, inevitably leading to the total shattering of confidence...
...this very reason I think a study of the motives and principles of such men as Dante of great value in deprovincializing our minds. Its guidance in politics may save the huge baggage wagon of human progress from many a sorry jolt and sometimes even from such a total overturn as that of the French Revolution. Montaigne's unconscious errand was not to break away from tradition, but to show that the past was even more valuable in certain ways as contrast than as example. In literature, the ability to make such contrasts is of incalculable advantage, nay, of prime...