2. An extensive anti-Machiavel[1] literature, due mainly to uncritical interpretation of The Prince and to ignorance regarding Machiavelli's other works, as well as to 'Machiavellian' practice.
3. (a) Merriman, Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell,[2] e.g. Letters 218 and 222.
(b) Clarendon, History of the Rebellion, Book XIV; and Gardiner, History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, vol. ii,[3] on Oliver Cromwell's foreign policy in 1654.
4. (a) Gentilis, De Legationtbus:[4]
'Legalem itaque, ethicum et politicum—at e Peripato—philosophum, Legatum volo; at etiam sobrie. Volo non ex umbra eum scholarum deduci, sed educatum in consiliis
- ↑ See above, pp. 76–7, foot-note.
- ↑ 2 vols., 1902.
- ↑ 1897; especially chapters xxxiii and xxxiv.
- ↑ 1585.
Sparta: 'The development of our power was at first forced upon us by circumstances: our first motive was fear; later, ambition was added, and then interest'), 76–7, 93 (sea-power); ii. 8, 36 (Funeral Oration of Pericles), 64 ('Your empire is at stake: it is too late to relinquish it, for you are already hated'); iii. 37 (Cleon's speech on the Mitylenaean rebels: I have said more than once that a democracy cannot conduct an empire), 38 ('You are always hankering after an ideal state: you do not give your minds to what is straight before you'), 40 ('Do not be misled by the charm of words or by a too forgiving disposition'), 44, 46 (administration and its salutary effects), 47 (the higher expediency in the conduct of great affairs), 82 (the sway of imperious necessities), 83 (the revolutionary character of the year 427 B.C.); v. 89 (justice and necessity), 92–112 (the Athenians and the Melians: dominion and dependence; interests and security: 'To uphold our rights in relation to our equals, to be politic with superiors, and to be moderate towards inferiors—that is the path of safety'); vi. 11–13 (Nicias and the proposed Sicilian expedition: Conserve and develop your own resources: contain your ambition: the Sicilians have their own country: let them manage their own affairs), 18 (Alcibiades: Inactivity spells our ruin: 'You cannot afford to regard inaction in the same light as others, unless you put a corresponding limit to your policy'), 39 (Athenagoras on a true democracy), 84, 85 (expediency and empire), 87.
