“It passed away, as most social systems do, in its sleep, leaving its citizens unaware that it was gone. No society more fully reflects Hegel’s dictum that the Owl of Minerva flies only at dusk; few people in eighteenth-century France understood that the Old Regime was no more.” —James Collins, The State in Early Modern […]
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