{"id":715,"date":"2013-12-18T16:43:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T22:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=715"},"modified":"2013-12-18T16:43:24","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T22:43:24","slug":"a-good-prince-must-know-geography-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2013\/12\/18\/a-good-prince-must-know-geography-history\/","title":{"rendered":"A Good Prince Must know Geography &amp; History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Although the writers of antiquity divided the whole theory of state government into two sections, war and peace, the first and most objective is the instruction of the prince in the matter of ruling wisely during times of peace, in which he should strive his utmost during times of peace, in which he should strive his utmost to preclude any future need for the science of war.\u00a0 In this matter it seems best that the prince should first know his own kingdom.\u00a0 This knowledge is best gained from [a study of ] <em><strong>geography<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>history<\/strong><\/em> and from frequent visits through his provinces and cities.\u00a0 Let him first be eager to learn the location of his districts and cities, with their beginnings, their nature, institutions, customs, laws, annals, and privileges.&#8221;\u00a0 Erasmus,<i>The Education of a Christian Prince,<\/i> trans. Lester K. Born. (New York: Columbia, 1936), p. 205.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Although the writers of antiquity divided the whole theory of state government into two sections, war and peace, the first and most objective is the instruction of the prince in the matter of ruling wisely during times of peace, in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2013\/12\/18\/a-good-prince-must-know-geography-history\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,29,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-erasmus","category-government","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}