This profligacy Brown compares to the languid vice which preceded the fall of Carthage and of Rome; and he sees the approaching ruin of Great Britain at the hands of France, unless it can be cured.
Laski draws a parallel between Brown's views on societal decline and historical examples from Carthage and Rome.
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Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
Where mistakes are made, where there is corruption, or dishonesty, or abuse, it can be brought home forthwith to its authors.
The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.
Even Lincoln supported his generals in completely indefensible attacks on civilian rights.
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