Book Reviews and Notices : The King and the Education of the King. BY JUAN DE MARIANA. An English Translation and Criticism by George Albert Moore. (Chevy Chase, Md.: The Country Dollar Press. 1948. Pp. xxiii, 440. $5.00. )
| Published date | 01 September 1948 |
| Date | 01 September 1948 |
| DOI | 10.1177/106591294800100318 |
| Author | Clay P. Malick |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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gradualist
Marxian
socialist
( not,
I
emphasize,
a
revolutionary
Communist).
Their
ethos,
and
their
base
promise,
already
partially
performed,
are
those
of
pluto-democracy,
whose
logic
is
the
defeat
of
democracy
by
the
wealthy
whom
it
threatens
to
bring
to
bay.
Laski,
lacking
the
sinuous,
strenuous
Tacitean
style,
yet
uses
Tactitus’s
technique
from
within
rather
than
without
the
people,
to
reveal
our
failings
that
we
may
repent
our
follies.
The
dangers
he
perceives
are
real.
Nor
can one
for
a
moment
question
the
rightness
of
his
plea
that
we
recall,
energize,
and
implement
the
promise
of
American
life,
and
make
it
what
Conant
has
called
&dquo;our
fighting
faith.&dquo;
Again,
the
contention
that,
should
we
fail,
both
America
and
Europe
will
pay
bitterly,
is
beyond
peradventure
correct.
Why,
then,
the
rejection
of
Laski’s
analysis?
Because
this
monistic
interpretation
of
our
trend
to
monolithic
death,
an
interpretation
which
comes
so
curiously
from
one
whose
initial
pluralism
was
largely
developed
from
his
earlier
perception
of
American
life,
precisely
fails
to
emphasize
adequately
the
rich
diversity
of
its
continuing
individualist
and
pluralist
heritage.
At
moments
these
may
facilitate
the
revival
by
corporate
power
of
the
old
Roman
technique,
divide
et
impera.
Yet
they
contain,
too,
a
vital
power
of
opposition,
resistance,
fragmentation.
Our
individualism
and
our
federalism,
capable
of
perversion
by
interests
not
devoted
to
the
general
welfare,
are
nonetheless
still
vital
foci
of
political,
economic,
social
and
cultural
resistance
to
the
threats
of
absolutism
by
state
or
economic
empire,
and
above
all
to
the
most
dangerous
threat,
envisaged
by
Laski,
of
a
sinister
.alliance
of
both.
THOMAS
I.
COOK.
University
of
Washington.
The
King
and
the
Education
of
the
King.
BY
JUAN
DE
MARIANA.
An
English
Translation
and
Criticism
by
George
Albert
Moore.
(Chevy
Chase,
Md.:
The
Country
Dollar
Press.
1948.
Pp.
xxiii,
440.
$5.00. )
This
book
is
one
of
a
series
of
English
translations
of
source
material
in
political
and
economic
theory
by
an
assiduous
Catholic
scholar,
Colonel
George
Albert
Moore.
It
was
begun
as
a
translation
of
Book
I
of
Mariana’s
De
Rege
in
partial
fulfillment
for
a
doctorate
at
Georgetown
University,
the
translation
of
the
remainder
of
Mariana’s
work
having
been
added
to
make
this
publication
complete.
The
translator
has
written
a
critical
and
well-documented
introduc-
tion
of
ninety-three
pages
covering
a
wide
range
of
data
pertinent
to
understanding
Mariana
and
his
times.
This
is
particularly
valuable
for
its
heavy
concentration
of
references
to
the
many
publications
which
have
commented
upon
the
major
points
of
political
thought
raised
by
Mariana.
The
introduction
does
not
cover
as
thoroughly
as
it
might
the
historical
setting
of
the
period,
but
it
makes
up
for
this
by
comparing
Mariana’s
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