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Benjamin Constant, The Liberty of Ancients Compared with that of Moderns [1819]

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The Liberty of Ancients Compared with that of Moderns (1819).


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Constant’s classic work in which he contrasts unfavorably the purely political liberties of the ancients with the far more expansive notion of liberty among the moderns.

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