The judicious architect, before pulling down the old structure, provides the material to replace it; in other words, he substitutes the new for the old, and in the process leaves no unnecessary interval in which the fostered interests shall be left to the vicissitudes of anarchy.
She uses the metaphor of an architect to illustrate the need for careful planning in societal reforms.
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Thousands possessed of comprehensive principles in a semi state of application have sunk with them into obscurity for lack of appreciation and support.
That kind of money which has elasticity, that will be plenty when business is active, and that can be readily put to other use for profit when business is less demanding, is the kind the prosperity of a country demands.
It is in the people themselves, and in the fundamental principles upon which society is built, and those which the people allow government to be administered upon.
In such a condition of things, courts of justice, with all their attendant judges, bailiffs and attorneys-at-law, would find their occupation gone.