[Marcus Marulus]

This article is a testimony of a certain way of thinking present in some reactionary circles and smacking all too much of Burkeism. The author's assumption is that all countries of Europe passed through the revolutionary and Jacobinist mess, which ushered in today's mass-democracies with universal suffrage. However, he seems to forget - or intentionally pays no heed to that fact - that there is in Europe at least one country which retained the old-fashioned "feudal" rule and the monarchy, along with a large leisure class which, free of constraints to work for living, was able to pursue studies, and did that quite often. That country is England or generally Britain. And inspite of that, England with time adopted the same political system as European countries of the continent, with the sole difference that in the English case the change was effected through slow evolution instead of revolutions. One has only to read some of the historical overviews of the English thought in the 19th century (for example, that by Somervell), to come to the conclusion that systems of government devised by different lords living in leisure bear much resemblance to those invented by the continental revolutionaries.

On the other hand, the author omits the flagrant fact that ranks of 18th century aristocracy and royalty were infested deeply and thoroughly with Freemasonry. It was in many cases the aristicrats who ideologically paved the way for revolutions to come.

As much as the modern system is rotten, monarchy and hereditary nobility are hardly a solution.