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Civic virtue

In his Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Antient Republicks, the English Whig historian Edward Wortley Montagu sought to describe "the principal causes of that degeneracy of manners, which reduc'd those once brave and free people into the most abject slavery."


Republic of Virtue

Many proponents of the Republic of Virtue developed their notion of civic virtue from the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778).


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Frederik Ludvig Liebenberg

In 1823, he was sent Copenhagen’s most prestigious private school, Borgerdydskolen (Civic Virtue School), whose headmaster, the legendary Michael Nielsen (1776–1846), was said to be a cross between a tyrant and a pedant.