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Voltaire on the Holy Roman Empire

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"This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was in no way holy, nor Roman, nor an empire."

Voltaire, Essay on General History and the Manners & Minds of Nations (AD 1759)



Is pedantry what passes for philosophy in this epoch? Socrates would weep.
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Voltaire was a frog, he's just angry the HRE was decentralized unlike glorious centralized, bureaucratic France.