They say--so cynical are they--that, in all ages and countries, the easiest method of evading or postponing a difficult problem has been to appoint a commission on it and thus prolong the circumlocution.
Reid critiques the tendency to delay difficult decisions by forming commissions, highlighting a historical pattern.
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With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship, and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.
But why should a sensible man deal with such folly?
They appeared at times when public men often seemed to be groping in the dark on an unknown road, but it is now evident that the road which has been taken is substantially the road they marked out.
But, in the main, they are surprisingly orderly, and cases of serious violence among them are quite rare.