Churches, play-houses, coffeehouses, all alike, are destined to be mingled, and equalized, and blended into one common rubbish,--and, well sifted, and lixiviated, to crystallize into true, democratic, explosive, insurrectionary nitre.
Burke warns of the blending and destruction of cultural institutions in the name of democracy.
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An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.
The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.
The House of Lords, for instance, is not morally competent to dissolve the House of Commons,--no, nor even to dissolve itself, nor to abdicate, if it would, its portion in the legislature of the kingdom.
But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.
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