The power is the government; the operatives its administrators; the various pieces and parts of the machinery are the people working in the several parts of the process; the cloth is the attained civilization, while the different degrees of fineness are its progressive steps.
This quote metaphorically describes the relationship between government, its people, and the resulting civilization as a process of collective effort and progress.
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It is this species of corruption that is becoming a stench in the nostrils of all those whose patriotism is more than pocket deep.
To do so carries no conviction nor prophetic knowledge of what must be next, as a necessary sequence.
With its destruction the lives of two great political parties passed away, and left the people with no distinct lines of demarkation.
Why do they advocate any general government at all?