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The Ruins: or a Survey of the Revolutions of Empires
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The Ruins: or a Survey of the Revolutions of Empires

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  • In Constantin-François de Chasseboeuf, count de Volney

    …les révolutions des empires (The Ruins: or a Survey of the Revolutions of Empires). Seeking the origins of civil society and the causes for its dissolution, he saw revolution as a result of the abandoning of the principles of natural law and religion, equality, and liberty.

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