But, above all things, they were frightened of 'the world;' the spectacle of nature filled them with awe and dread.

But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.

He had seen that LEISURE is the great need of early societies, and slaves only can give men leisure.

No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.

The whole history of civilisation, is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

Carlyle has taught the present generation many lessons, and one of these is that 'God-fearing' armies are the best armies.

And again, in political matters, how quickly a leading statesman can change the tone of the community!

Now it is not conceivable that a race of beings with valuable instincts supporting their existence and supplying their wants would need these simple tools.

All savage religions are full of superstitions founded on luck.

I do not think I put this too high when I say that a most important if not the most important object of early legislation was the enforcement of LUCKY rites.

Thirdly, we see why so few nations have made rapid advance, and how many have become stationary.

In early society, originality in life was forbidden and repressed by the fixed rule of life.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

The power of free interchange of ideas being wanting, the ideas themselves were barren.

We have thus a whole group of ancient republics of non-Aryan race, and one which, being more ancient than the classical republics, could not have borrowed from or imitated them.

If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.

Nothing promotes intellect like intellectual discussion, and nothing promotes intellectual discussion so much as government by discussion.

They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.

The United States could not have become monarchical, even if the Constitutional Convention had decreed it, even if the component States had ratified it.

Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.

The nation then selected the English policy, but the Crown chose the English Ministers.

But all men heed great results, and a change of Government is a great result.

And, to the effectual maintenance of such a separation, the exclusion of the President's Ministers from the legislature is essential.

The progress of the military art is the most conspicuous, I was about to say the most SHOWY, fact in human history.