Not more certain is it that the boldest streams must disappear, if the fountains which fed them be emptied, than was the dissolution of the democratic societies of America, when the Jacobin clubs were denounced by France.
Beveridge draws a metaphor about the decline of democratic societies in America, likening it to streams disappearing when their sources are dried up.
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