The new Machiavelli
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Remington is a brilliant student at Cambridge, writes several books on political themes, marries a wealthy heiress and enters parliament as a Liberal influenced by the socialism of a couple easily recognizable as the Webbs, only to go over to the Conservatives.
Excerpt:
Since I came to this place I have been very restless, wasting my energies in the futile beginning of ill-conceived books. One does not settle down very readily at two and forty to a new way of living, and I have found myself with the teeming interests of the life I have abandoned still buzzing like a swarm of homeless bees in my head. My mind has been full of confused protests and justifications.
In any case, I should have found difficulties enough in expressing the complex thing I have to tell, but it has added greatly to my trouble that I have a great analogue, that a certain. Niccolo Machiavelli chanced to fall out of politics at A very much the age I have reached, and wrote a book to engage the restlessness of his mind, very much as I have wanted to do.
He wrote about the relation of the great constructive spirit in politics to individual character and weaknesses, and so far his achievement lies like a deep rut in the road of my intention. It has taken me far astray. It is a matter of many weeks now diversified indeed by some long drives into the mountains behind us and a memorable sail to Genoa across the blue and purple waters that drowned Shelley since I began a laboured and futile imitation of " The Prince." I sat up late last night with the jumbled accumulation; and at last, made a little fire of olive twigs and burnt it all, sheet by sheet to begin again clear this morning.
Author: H. G. Wells
Publication Date:(1910)
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