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It would be impossible to gain any adequate notion of the intellectual forces, that made up the mind of the average European statesman from 1600–1800 if we altogether omitted a consideration of the influence of Machiavelli.

— John Neville Figgis Studies of Political Thought from Gershon to Grotius, 1414–1625 (1907)

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