BIBLIOGRAPHY
Reading edition
I have included in this bibliography the more important works mentioned in the body of this volume; also a few others that, for one reason or another, seem especially relevant to the topics I have discussed.
Acton, Lord:
Letters of Lord Acton to Mary Gladstone. 1904.
The History of Freedom and Other Essays. 1907.
Althusius, J.:
Politica methodice digesta. 1603.
Aristotle:
Nicomachean Ethics. Tr. by D. P. Chase. 1847. (Reprint in Everyman’s Library.)
Politics. Tr. by B. Jowett. 1905.
Arnim, H. von:
Die politischen Theorien des Altertums. 1910.
Atger, F.:
Essai sur l’histoire des doctrines du contrat social. 1906.
Augustine, Saint:
De Civitate Dei. Ed. E. Hoffman. 2 vols. 1898. Tr. by M. Dods. 1897.
Barker, E.:
Political Thought in England from Herbert Spencer to the Present Day. 1915.
Greek Political Theory. 1918.
Beveridge, A. J.:
The Life of John Marshall. 4 vols. 1916.
Mr. Beveridge brings out interestingly the irreconcilable opposition between Marshall and Jefferson. He should, however, at some point in his work have discriminated sharply between the unionist and the nationalist of imperialistic leanings. Marshall is very far from being a precursor of Roosevelt.
Bossuet, J. B.:
Politique tirée de l’écriture sainte. 1709.
Bourgeois, E.:
Manuel historique de politique étrangère. 3 vols. 4e éd. 1909.
Burke, E.:
Works. 8 vols. (Bohn Library.) 1854–61.
Reflections on the Revolution in France. 1790.
Letter to a Member of the National Assembly. 1791.
Bury, J. B.:
The Idea of Progress. 1921.
Carlyle, R. W., and A. J.:
A History of Mediæval Political Theory. 4 vols. 1903–22.
Chateaubriand, F. R. de:
Essai historique, politique et moral sur les Révolutions. 1797.
Mémoires d’Outre-Tombe (1848). Ed. E. Biré. 6 vols. 1898–1901.
Confucius:
The Sayings of Confucius (Analects). Tr. by L. Giles. 1907.
The Conduct of Life. Tr. by Ku Hung Ming. 1906.
This is the Confucian treatise usually entitled The Doctrine of the Mean. A still more literal rendering of the two Chinese words that make up the title, if we accept Mr. Ku Hung Ming’s explanation of them, would be the “universal norm” or “centre.”
Cumberland, R.:
De Legibus naturæ. 1672.
Dante Alighieri:
De Monarchia. About 1310. Ed. Moore. 1904. Tr. by P. H. Wicksteed in Temple Classics.
Dedieu, J.:
Montesquieu et la tradition politique anglaise en France. 1909.
Diels, H.:
Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker. 2 vols. (in 3). 2d ed. 1906–10.
Dunning, W. A.:
A History of Political Theories. 3 vols. 1902–20.
Ferguson, W. F.:
Greek Imperialism. 1913.
Fester, R.:
Rousseau und die deutsche Geschichtsphilosophie. 1890.
Figgis, J. N.:
Studies of Political Thought from Gerson to Grotius. 1907. 2d ed. 1916.
An excellent treatment of the all-important period of transition from a theocratic Europe to a Europe of great territorial nationalities.
The Divine Right of Kings. 1914.
Filmer, R.:
Patriarcha; or The Natural Power of Kings. 1680. (Reprinted together with Locke’s Treatises of Government in Morley’s Universal Library.)
Frank, T.:
Roman Imperialism. 1914.
Fustel de Coulanges, N. D.:
La Cité antique. 1864. 16th ed. 1898. Tr. by W. Small. 1874.
It is difficult to exhibit the relation between ethos and political forms without seeming, and perhaps without being, too systematic. La Cité antique has been criticized severely from this point of view. C. Bémont, however, goes too far when he asserts (article on Fustel in the 11th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica) that it “has been largely superseded”; on the contrary, it is, in certain important respects, a work of almost definitive excellence.
Gierke, O.:
Political Theories of the Middle Age. Tr. and ed. by F. W. Maitland. 1900.
Johannes Althusius. 1880. 3d ed. 1913.
A valuable repertory of information on such topics as natural rights and the social contract. Gierke probably exaggerates, however, the influence of Althusius on Rousseau who mentions him only once (end of 6e Lettre écrite de la Montagne).
Gomperz, T.:
Griechische Denker. 2d ed. 3 vols. 1903–09. Tr. by L. Magnus and G. G. Berry. 1901–12.
Gooch, G. P.:
Germany and the French Revolution. 1920.
Grotius, H.:
De Jure belli et pacis. 1625. Tr. by Whewell. 3 vols. 1853.
Hearnshaw, F. J. C. (editor):
The Social and Political Ideas of some Great Mediæval Thinkers. 1923.
In one of the articles of this volume Eileen Power points out that Pierre Du Bois, a lawyer in the service of Philippe le Bel, formulated a plan of European peace that anticipated in some respects the Grand Dessein of Sully. This plan, like that of Sully, would have resulted practically in the French domination of Europe.
Hobbes, T.:
Leviathan. 1651. Ed. W. G. Pogson Smith. 1909.
Hooker, R.:
Ecclesiastical Polity. 1592. (Reprint in Everyman’s Library.)
Hume, D.:
A Treatise of Human Nature. 1739–40. (Reprint in Everyman’s Library.)
Janet, P.:
Histoire de la science politique. 2 vols. 1858. 4th ed. 1913.
Jefferson, T.:
Works. 10 vols. Ed. P. L. Ford. 1892–99.
Laski, H. J.:
Political Thought from Locke to Bentham. 1920.
Lecky, W. E. H.:
Democracy and Liberty. 2 vols. 1896.
Locke, J.:
Two Treatises of Government. 1690. (Reprint in Morley’s Universal Library.)
Louter, J. de:
Le Droit international positif. 1920.
MacDonald, J. R.:
The Socialist Movement. 1911.
Machiavelli, N.:
Del modo tenuto dal duca Valentino nell’ ammazzare Vitellozzo Vitelli, etc. 1502.
Il Principe. 1513.
Vita di Castruccio Castricani. 1520.
Translations of all three pieces appear in the same volume of Everyman’s Library.
Maine, Sir H. J. S.:
Ancient Law. 1861. (Reprint in Everyman’s Library.) See especially ch. IV, “The Modern History of the Law of Nature.”
Maistre, J. de:
Du Pape. 1819.
Soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg. 1821.
The “Premier entretien” contains the celebrated “Portrait du bourreau.”
Mandeville, B.:
The Fable of the Bees. 1714. (The Grumbling Hive, the verses that form the nucleus of this volume, appeared originally in 1705). 5th ed., 2 vols. 1728–29.
Marsilius of Padua:
Defensor Pacis. 1324. Text in Goldast, Monarchia S. Imperii Romani.
Merriam, C. E.:
American Political Theories. 1903. New ed. 1920.
Michel, H.:
L’Idée de l’état. 1896.
Mill, J. S.:
On Liberty. 1859. (Reprinted together with the essays on Utilitarianism and Representative Government in Everyman’s Library.)
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat de la Brède, Baron de:
De l’Esprit des Lois. 1748.
Oliver, F. S.:
Alexander Hamilton; an Essay on American Union. 1907.
Pascal, B.:
Pensées et opuscules. Ed. L. Brunschvicg. 1917.
Plato:
Works. Tr. by B. Jowett. 5 vols. 3d ed. 1892.
Pound, R.:
The Spirit of the Common Law. 1921.
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law. 1922.
Powers, H. H.:
America among the Nations. 1917.
Renan, E.:
La Réforme intellectuelle et morale. 1871.
Ritchie, D. G.:
Natural Rights. 1894. 3d ed. 1916.
The notion of natural rights is, according to Ritchie, chimerical and leads to an unsound individualism. What he opposes to this unsoundness is not a sound individualism but social expediency, which is itself, in virtue of the doctrine of evolution, constantly changing. A useful feature of this book is the appendix which contains the more important eighteenth-century declarations of rights in France and America.
Rousseau, J.-J.:
Œuvres complètes. 13 vols. (Hachette.)
There is no good complete edition.
The Political Writings. 2 vols. Ed. C. E. Vaughan. 1915.
Vaughan has done good work on the text. In his introductory material, on the other hand, he develops ideas—for example, the idea that Rousseau is politically a true Platonist—which will not bear serious scrutiny.
Saint-Pierre, Abbé de:
Projet pour rendre la paix perpétuelle en Europe. 1712–17.
Schopenhauer, A.:
Grundlage der Moral. 1840. Tr. by A. B. Bullock. 2d ed. 1915.
Seillière, E.:
L’Impérialisme démocratique. 1907.
Le Mal romantique. 1908.
Introduction à la philosophie de l’impérialisme. 1911.
Le Péril mystique dans l’inspiration des démocraties modernes. 1918.
Balzac et la morale romantique. 1922.
Vers le socialisme rationnel. 1923.
M. Seillière intends this last volume as a summary of his whole point of view. Among the expositions of his philosophy that have been published by others the best is that by R. Gillouin: Une nouvelle philosophie de l’histoire moderne (1921). See also La Pensée d’Ernest Seillière, twelve studies by contemporary French writers. 1923 (Bibliography at the end). M. Seillière has been criticized for giving an undue extension to the term imperialism. A more legitimate objection is that to his use of the word “mysticism.” On this latter point see Henri Bremond: Histoire littéraire du sentiment religieux en France, vol. IV (1920), p. 566 n.
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of:
Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions and Times. 1711. 2d ed. 1714. Ed. J. M. Robertson. 1900.
The Life, unpublished Letters and Philosophical Regimen. Ed. B. Rand. 1900.
Smith, A.:
The Theory of Moral Sentiments. 1761. 6th ed. with critical and biographical memoir by Dugald Stewart, 1790. (Reprint in Bohn’s Library.)
The Wealth of Nations. 1776. (Reprint in Everyman’s Library.)
Spengler, O.:
Der Untergang des Abendlandes. 2 vols. 1919–22.
Stephen, Fitzjames:
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. 2d ed. 1874.
Tagore, Rabindranath:
Nationalism. 1917.
Tröltsch, E.:
Augustin, die christliche Antike und die Mittelalter. 1915.
Viallate, A.:
L’Impérialisme économique et les relations internationales pendant le dernier demi-siècle (1870–1920). 1923.
Whitman, W.:
Leaves of Grass. 1855.
Democratic Vistas. 1871.
Zanta, L.:
La Renaissance du stoïcisme au XVIe Siècle. 1914.