But within these marked conditions good discussion is better than bad; no people can bear a government of discussion for a day, which does not, within the boundaries of its prejudices and its ideas, prefer good reasoning to bad reasoning, sound argument to unsound.
He asserts that within societal prejudices, good reasoning is essential for governance.
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And, to the effectual maintenance of such a separation, the exclusion of the President's Ministers from the legislature is essential.
It is absurd to choose by contested party election an impartial chooser of Ministers.
No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.
Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.
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