hey i need help with a few questions for history. there was a passage given but i am having trouble please help
Simon Bolivar: Message to the Congress of Angorastura, 1819
We are not Europeans; we are not Indians; we are but a mixed species of aborigines and Spaniards. Americans by birth and European by law, we find ourselves engaged in a dual conflict; we are disputing with the natives for titles of ownership, and at the same time we are struggling to maintain ourselves in the country that gave us birth against the opposition of the invaders. Thus our position is most extraordinary and complicated. But there is more. As our role has always been strictly passive and political existence nil, we find that our quest for liberty is now even more difficult to accomplish; for we, having been placed in a state lower than slavery, had been robbed not only of our freedom but also of the right to exercise and active domestic tyranny…We have been ruled more by deceit than by force, and we have been degraded more by vice than by superstition. Slavery is the daughter of darkness; an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction. Ambition and intrigue abuses the credibility and experience of men lacking political, economic, and civic knowledge; they adopt pure illusion as reality; they take license for liberty, treachery for patriotism, and vengeance for justice. If a people, perverted by their training, succeed in achieving their liberty, they will soon lose it, for it would be of no avail to endeavor to explain to them that happiness consists in the practice of virtue; that the rule of law is more powerful than the rule of tyrants, because, as the laws are more flexible, everyone should submit to the beneficent austerity; that proper morals, and not force, are the basis of law; and that to practice justice is to practice liberty.
Of the three ideologies (nationalism, liberalism, conservatism), how would this revolution be classified?
How does Bolivar see his revolution as unique as compared to others such as the French Revolution?
Why must men be educated in the ways of politics and government?
Does Bolivar foresee any problems with the state after the revolution is concluded?
Simon Bolivar: Message to the Congress of Angorastura, 1819
We are not Europeans; we are not Indians; we are but a mixed species of aborigines and Spaniards. Americans by birth and European by law, we find ourselves engaged in a dual conflict; we are disputing with the natives for titles of ownership, and at the same time we are struggling to maintain ourselves in the country that gave us birth against the opposition of the invaders. Thus our position is most extraordinary and complicated. But there is more. As our role has always been strictly passive and political existence nil, we find that our quest for liberty is now even more difficult to accomplish; for we, having been placed in a state lower than slavery, had been robbed not only of our freedom but also of the right to exercise and active domestic tyranny…We have been ruled more by deceit than by force, and we have been degraded more by vice than by superstition. Slavery is the daughter of darkness; an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction. Ambition and intrigue abuses the credibility and experience of men lacking political, economic, and civic knowledge; they adopt pure illusion as reality; they take license for liberty, treachery for patriotism, and vengeance for justice. If a people, perverted by their training, succeed in achieving their liberty, they will soon lose it, for it would be of no avail to endeavor to explain to them that happiness consists in the practice of virtue; that the rule of law is more powerful than the rule of tyrants, because, as the laws are more flexible, everyone should submit to the beneficent austerity; that proper morals, and not force, are the basis of law; and that to practice justice is to practice liberty.
Of the three ideologies (nationalism, liberalism, conservatism), how would this revolution be classified?
How does Bolivar see his revolution as unique as compared to others such as the French Revolution?
Why must men be educated in the ways of politics and government?
Does Bolivar foresee any problems with the state after the revolution is concluded?