tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881811987987045711.post2303274371750851395..comments2024-03-23T18:12:43.833+00:00Comments on Once I Was A Clever Boy: Imperial thought for the dayOnce I Was A Clever Boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01367322665145704342noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881811987987045711.post-21538474171967565392010-08-06T11:49:25.249+01:002010-08-06T11:49:25.249+01:00Thank you for posting this. What an aesthetically ...Thank you for posting this. What an aesthetically rich painting that is. Empress Maria Theresa's comments on the Enlightenment strike a cord about modern liberal leftism too. I must confess that I am in favour of the Englightenment though. The truth remains though that those who question new intellectual fads are vitriollically derided. <br />I do wish the Austro-Hungarian Empire still existed. Norman Stone wrote that it was not in terminal decline. It merely fell apart when it lost a major war.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com