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"of you and what you will be able to perform, if you understand<lb/>"your business <add>art</add> in the degree in which you <add>we expect you</add> might <lb/>"and ought to understand it, is to teach us how to prevent<lb/>"these propensities from ever being formed — The business is to<lb/>"crop <add>nip</add> them in the bud, not to let them stay till they have<lb/>"born fruit — Do this or You do nothing." — Such is the task which the well-meant but inconsiderate zeal of philanthrophists would impose upon the reforming legislator.<lb/><note>Use of undeceiving | |||
<lb/>them</note> <p>In point of fact however Nature, I fear, is not so rich in her resources nor so lavish in her favours as these sanguine philanthropists seem to imagine. If so, since the keeping ourselves bent upon grasping at what is beyond our reach serves only to make us neglect what is before our eyes, it may be of use if men can be taught to repress these hankerings after unattainable perfection: they may then be induced to confine their views and expectations to the adoption and improvement of such plain and homely expedients as the nature of men and things furnishes for the approaching as near as may be to the accomplishment of such commendable views. <lb/><note>They may learn to be <lb/>more indulgent in their <lb/>judgements <del>of</del> <add>they pass</add> on the conduct <lb/>of those who act at <lb/>the helm of state.</note></p> | |||
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C.
3.
Of Preventive Institutions.
"of you and what you will be able to perform, if you understand
"your business art in the degree in which you we expect you might
"and ought to understand it, is to teach us how to prevent
"these propensities from ever being formed — The business is to
"crop nip them in the bud, not to let them stay till they have
"born fruit — Do this or You do nothing." — Such is the task which the well-meant but inconsiderate zeal of philanthrophists would impose upon the reforming legislator.
Use of undeceiving
them
In point of fact however Nature, I fear, is not so rich in her resources nor so lavish in her favours as these sanguine philanthropists seem to imagine. If so, since the keeping ourselves bent upon grasping at what is beyond our reach serves only to make us neglect what is before our eyes, it may be of use if men can be taught to repress these hankerings after unattainable perfection: they may then be induced to confine their views and expectations to the adoption and improvement of such plain and homely expedients as the nature of men and things furnishes for the approaching as near as may be to the accomplishment of such commendable views.
They may learn to be
more indulgent in their
judgements of they pass on the conduct
of those who act at
the helm of state.
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