Cosimo De'' Medici (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Cosimo De'' Medici<br><br>Florence too was a commercial state; the possession of land was merely an accident in the possession of power - a part but the least important part of wealth; we find all the commercial problems of a later date already alive - the uneasy relations between capital and labour the employment of foreign politics as a means to commercial extension the manipulation of a state debt with shares whose value ?uctuated as the prosperity of the Government.<br><br>Here too are found in almost every individual that very modern craving to obtain a share however small in the direction of the national policy; here as in modern politics the difficulty of establishing an executive powerful enough and sufficiently many-sided to embrace and com with the complicated and manifold conditions of modern administration; here efforts like those of a modern foreign minister to make his policy consistent and effective and yet agreeable to the public whim Government must be maintained either by brute force or by clearly-expressed public Opinion never by the inert acquiescence of the governed in any rule that had an appearance of hereditary right.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.