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Quotes from The Philosophical Emperor, a Political Experiment, or, The Progress of a False Position — Alexander Bryan Johnson

1786–1867 England

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My readers understand now something of the nature of a false position.

The Philosophical Emperor, a Political Experiment, or, The Progress of a False Position (1841)

Many branches of knowledge exist in our world that are unknown to theory and untaught in schools.

The Philosophical Emperor, a Political Experiment, or, The Progress of a False Position (1841)

To remain permanently either on the pinnacle or in the abyss is deemed a species of the same disorder, though not so common.

The Philosophical Emperor, a Political Experiment, or, The Progress of a False Position (1841)

He will diverge from the authorized track... From habit, the people will move a little in his erratic course.

The Philosophical Emperor, a Political Experiment, or, The Progress of a False Position (1841)

His majesty could not see why the principle was not applicable to politics. He resolved to try it.

The Philosophical Emperor, a Political Experiment, or, The Progress of a False Position (1841)

We need not wade into the current of Niagara Falls unless we please; but, after we have waded in we must thereafter be governed by the course and force of the stream.

The Philosophical Emperor, a Political Experiment, or, The Progress of a False Position (1841)

War and fights, like courtship and kisses, are seldom interesting except to the actors and their connexions; hence I will not burden my readers with the military operations of these remote regions.

The Philosophical Emperor, a Political Experiment, or, The Progress of a False Position (1841)

He soon becomes monomaniac, and is abandoned except by a few stragglers as crazy as himself; while he interprets the abandonment into ingratitude or heterodoxy, and grows scurrilous, turbulent, and impotent.

The Philosophical Emperor, a Political Experiment, or, The Progress of a False Position (1841)

The emperor relied on his popularity, the obedient habits of his subjects, and chiefly on the prejudices of the people against anything that could be subjected, right or wrong, to the charge of unconstitutionality.

The Philosophical Emperor, a Political Experiment, or, The Progress of a False Position (1841)

The confectionary was useful enough to make its destruction eminently foolish; and fools were numerous enough to make its destruction eminently popular. Thus reasoned the emperor.

The Philosophical Emperor, a Political Experiment, or, The Progress of a False Position (1841)

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