Excerpt from A History of Modern Liberty, Vol. 2 The Secularist in Politics - Rationality Applied to Politics - Machiavelli Champion of the Modern Spirit - Influence of the Spirit of the Age - Machiavelli's Narrowness - The People as a Factor in Government - Its Capacity for Public Affairs - Admiration of Popular Govern ment - Machiavelli as Moralist - Republican Government a Failure Where Florence has Erred - No Idea of Progress - Machiavelli and More - More the Victim of Arbitrary Government - Contemporary Kings and Courtiers Utopia the Antithesis of The Prince Arbitrary Methods of Kings - Radical Reforms Demanded - Utopia a Democratic State - More the Champion of Religious Liberty - An Apostle of Modern Liberty - Sources of Chapter II. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.