Law had the benefit of working for an absolute monarchy which could decree that taxes should be paid in the form of notes issued by his new bank, Banque Générale.
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尽管它是同时期诸家君主论中最具有理性色彩的理论,但最终依旧滑入绝对专制主义的泥潭。
In spite it was a very rational theory among the monarch theories of various schools then, yet in the long run it still lapsed into the mire of the absolute autocracy.
In the 17th century, historians had their self-consciousness. They critiqued the feudal autocracy and the orthodox thoughts. Orthodoxy had been shaken.