The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe by Brady Andrea; Butterworth Emily;

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe by Brady Andrea; Butterworth Emily;

Author:Brady, Andrea; Butterworth, Emily;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Language & Literature
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-10-28T16:00:00+00:00


Colonization would divert the ‘passions’ and seditious behaviour of subjects and purge the corrupted body of the state:

Les Princes de ce temps devroient faire monstre de l’inutile puissance de leurs subjets, soit pour illustrer, estendre, ou enrichir leur estat: soit pour divertir les passions des plus mutins, pour le continuel exercise des armes que tous grands princes ont tousjours jugé necessaire au plus seur entretien d’un estat: ressemblans au bon medecin qui purge par sueurs, evacuation de sang corrompu, ou autrement le corps cacochime & plein de mauvaises humeurs, pour obvier à la maladie qui le saiseroit aussi tost. (Les Trois Mondes 78)7

The princes of these times should turn the useless power of their subjects into military strength, either to glorify, extend or enrich their state, or to divert the most mutinous passions, for the continual exercise of arms that all great princes have always judged necessary to the surest maintenance of a states: resembling a good doctor who purges a feeble body filled with bad humours through sweating, evacuation of corrupted blood, or otherwise, so as to obviate sickness before it takes hold.



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