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Theory of Social Revolutions, by Brooks Adams
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Title: The Theory of Social Revolutions
Author: Brooks Adams
Release Date: January 6, 2004 [EBook #10613]
Language: English
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THE THEORY OF SOCIAL REVOLUTIONS
BY
BROOKS ADAMS
1913
PREFATORY NOTE
The first chapter of the following book was published, in substantially its present form, in the Atlantic Monthly for April, 1913. I have to thank the editor for his courtesy in assenting to my wish to reprint. The other chapters have not appeared before. I desire also to express my obligations to my learned friend, Dr. M.M. Bigelow, who, most kindly, at my request, read chapters two and three, which deal with the constitutional law, and gave me the benefit of his most valuable criticism.
Further than this I have but one word to add. I have written in support of no political movement, nor for any ephemeral purpose. I have written only to express a deep conviction which is the result of more than twenty years of study, and reflection upon this subject.
BROOKS ADAMS.
QUINCY, MASSACHUSETTS, May 17, 1