Excerpt from Righting the People's Wrongs: A Lesson From History for Our Own Times History has afl'orded many sad illustrations Of republican shells masking imperial despotism or intolerable tyrannies, under autocratic or oligarchi cal rule; but in England we find the form and paraphernalia of monarchy clothing a government which, since the dawn of the Victorian age, has suc cessively enlarged the rights and privileges of the people, and which has from year to year, in its internal policy and in that of its Anglo - Saxon dependencies, accepted the larger demand of a free government whose face is set toward the republican ideal. For this reason a brief survey of the period will prove helpful and, I think, inspiring to those who are earnestly working for freedom, for fraternity, and for happiness based on justice and enlightenment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.