...es of the moment, which con trivances, if in sufficient conformity to the national feelings and character, commonly last, and, by successive aggrega ... ...they desire to propitiate. Popular election thus prac ticed, instead of a security against misgovernment, is but an additional wheel in its machinery... ...al basis for institutions, of their being in harmony 11 J S Mill with the national usages and character, and the like, means either this, or nothing ... ...secure, can any state of things be more conducive to Progress? The greater security of property is one of the main conditions and causes of greater pr... ...o the other. Economy, for example, equally preserves the existing stock of national wealth, and favors the creation of more. A just distribution of bu... ...e corner of the earth, the antagonism of influences which is the only real security for continued progress. Religion, consequently, was not there what... ... the people them selves. He might even surround himself with a council or councils of government, freely chosen by the whole or some portion of the n... ...wealth which he administered, and with the part he was able to play in its councils. This dignity and estimation were quite different things from the ... ...an hardly be without misgivings that the Themistocles or Demosthenes whose councils would have saved the nation, might be unable during his whole life...

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...ring everywhere among the settlers, bolt and bar were indispensable to the security of a dwelling. The summons was answered by a bond-ser- vant, a coa... ...med native in the New England cottage, and inseparable from the warmth and security of its hearth. Un- der the influence of kind treatment, and in the... ...e windows, and I could discern the inmates as they gathered in comfort and security every man with his wife and children by their own evening hearth. ... ...ty years. Now he rattled forth full-throated sentences about patrio- tism, national glory, and the people’s right; now he muttered some perilous stuff... ... spirit of intrigue—your tricks of stage effect—and think to influence the councils of rulers and the affairs of nations by such shallow contrivances?... ...e to draw them headlong, as it were, into their own dismal pit. The public councils were suspended, as if mortal wisdom might relinquish its devices, ...