(October 15, 1747\u2013January 5, 1813) knighted Lord Woodhouselee, was an English historian. He wrote an essay entitled The Principles of Translation<\/i>, 1791, which was the first systematic study in English of translation. In his thesis entitled a \u201cCycle of Nations\u201d in The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic,<\/i> Sir Alexander Fraser Tyler stated:<\/p>\n
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with a result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by dictatorship. The average age of the world\u2019s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence \u2014<\/p>\n
\u2014 From bondage to spiritual faith;<\/p>\n
\u2014 From spiritual faith to great courage<\/p>\n
\u2014 From courage to liberty<\/p>\n
\u2014 From liberty to abundance;<\/p>\n
\u2014 From abundance to selfishness;<\/p>\n
\u2014 From selfishness to complacency;<\/p>\n
\u2014 From complacency to apathy;<\/p>\n
\u2014 From apathy to dependency;<\/p>\n
\u2014 From dependency back into bondage.1348<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(October 15, 1747\u2013January 5, 1813) knighted Lord Woodhouselee, was an English historian. He wrote an essay entitled The Principles of Translation, 1791, which was the first systematic study in English of translation. In his thesis entitled a \u201cCycle of Nations\u201d in The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic, Sir Alexander Fraser Tyler stated: A … Continue reading “TYLER,
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