Furthermore, the prestige which science enjoyed in the nineteenth century, and the prestige which the empirical and secular world of action has enjoyed to a degree that has steadily increased since the Renaissance, have convinced the absolutist of the intrinsic significance of these parts of experience.
"The Approach to Philosophy"
Ralph Barton Perry
It is difficult to understand the enthusiasm that could be aroused for the rehabilitation of an absolutist, bureaucratic, and militarist State, such as Prussia was-a State in which civil and political liberty was conspicuous by its absence.
"German Culture Past and Present"
Ernest Belfort Bax
Panic seized the reactionists, and the Austrian Minister Metternich, one of the chief pillars of absolutist principles in Europe, induced the King to commit himself to the Austrian system of repression.
"German Culture Past and Present"
Ernest Belfort Bax