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xxxii IL PRINCIPE.
Happiness principle in :768, and gave a shilling for it, at
the corner of Queen's College. He found it in Priestley,
and he might have gone on finding it in Beccaria and
Hutcheson ; all of whom trace their pedigree to the Manclragola:
Io credo ehe quello sia bene the faeci bene a'
pi/1, e che i pi/J se ne contentino. This is the centre of
unity in all Machiavelli, and gives him touch, not with
unconscious imitators only, but with the most conspicuous
race of reasoners in the century.
English experience has not been familiar with a line
of thought plainly involving indulgence to Machiavelli.
Dugald Stewart raises him high, but raises him for a
heavy fall: ' No writer, certainly, either in ancient or in
modern times, has ever united, in a more remarkable
degree, a greater variety of the most dissimilar and seemingly
the most discordant gifts and attainments.--To his
maxims the royal defenders of the Catholic faith have
been indebted for the spirit of that policy which they have
uniformly opposed to the innovations of the reformers.'
Hallam indeed has said: ' We continually find a more
flagitious and undisguised abandonment of moral rules for
the sake of some :dol of a general principle than can be
imputed to ThePrince of Machiavel.' But the unaccustomed
hyperbole had been hazarded a century before in the obscurity
of a Latin dissertation by Feuerlin : Longe detestabiliores
errores apud alios doctores politicos facile invenias,
si eidem rigorosae censurae eorum scripta subiicienda
essent. What has been, with us, the occasional aphorism
of a masterful mind, encountered support abroad in accredited
systems, and in a vast and successful political
movement. The recovery of Machiavelli has been essentially
the product of causes operating on the Continent.
When Hegel was dominant to the Rhine, and Cousin
beyond it, the circumstances favoured his reputation.
For Hegel taught: Der Gang der Weltgeschichte steht