Practical diplomatists say that a free Government is harder to deal with than a despotic Government; you may be able to get the despot to hear the other side; his Ministers, men of trained intelligence, will be sure to know what makes against them; and they MAY tell him.
Bagehot notes that dealing with a free government can be more challenging than with a despotic one due to the openness of its ministers.
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They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.
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.
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.
The work would be done so well that we should not want any one to look over or revise it.
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