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Indirect
Misrule
which he alone bore the expense while another reaped
the credit. [Finding the people nation then as usual
ready bitted and saddled what should hinder him
from vaulting into his seat?] Finding the seat of
his predecessor completely vacant, what should hinder
him from stepping in and filling it?
Suppose On the other hand were the projector of such an
institution to establish it in his life-time. Keeping
his new associates in leading-strings for a certain
time he might at last set them on their own legs
legs: little by little he might bring them to feel their strength:
they would feel the sweets while they learnt the use of
power. habit the cause which attached them had till then atta fixed attached them to
the new government would have attached them to the new
one: and if at last in process of time a new sovereign prince
should attempt to wish think of repossessing himself of the abdicated
power, he would find the obedience of the subject
had taken settled itself in such a course as no longer to be capable of being diverted
into reducible into its former channel. As
to the founder himself it is likely enough he should he need not be under no great
apprehension of being a loser by the change. lose nothing by the change: habit former antient habits, and
recent gratitude would produce a degree of obsequiousness
to his will which no one else could have see
any title reason to expect: the forms of absolute government
being would indeed be changed into the forms of freedom; [the influence]
he
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