The sound, wholesome common-sense of the American people fortunately renders such movements, as a rule, innocuous; and this is, in reality, the prime reason why republican government prospers in America, as it does not prosper, for instance, in France.
From an essay on the strenuous life, this passage attributes the success of American republican government to the common sense of its people.
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