A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Thursday, January 21, 2016

ON REVOLUTION

"Revolution separates the inhabitants of a country into there main groups those who cannot help but be whole-hearted revolutionaries; those who cannot help but on the other side, and those whose sympathies fall between the two, because, though bound by tradition and sympathy to the threatened class, they have, nevertheless, certain grievances against it." Andre Maurois, Lelia: The Life of George Sand, translated from the French by Gerald Hopkins (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1953), at 24.