eaving out of consideration those maxims of state which still furnish
some European and eastern statesmen with principles of action
The
Prince" is bestrewn with truths that can be proved at every turn. Men are
still the dupes of their simplicity and greedas they were in the days of
Alexander VI. The cloak of religion still conceals the vices which
Machiavelli laid bare in the character of Ferdinand of Aragon. Men will
not look at things as they really arebut as they wish them to be--and are
ruined. In politics there are no perfectly safe courses; prudence consists in
choosing the least dangerous ones. Then --to pass to a higher plane--
The Prince
11
Machiavelli reiterates thatalthough crimes may win an empirethey do
not win glory. Necessary wars are just warsand the arms of a nation are
hallowed when it has no other resource but to fight.
It is the cry of a far later day than Machiavelli's that government
should be elevated into a living moral forcecapable of inspiring the
people with a just recognition of the fundamental principles of society; to
this "high argument" "The Prince" contributes but little. Machiavelli
always refused to write either of men or of governments otherwise tha
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