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ITS INFLUENCE ON POLITICAL SOCIETY.
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and heart; and in order to reach that result, it is enough that they do not check themselves in their course.

I am of opinion, that, in the democratic ages which are opening upon us, individual independence and local liberties will ever be the produce of artificial contrivance; that centralization will be the natural form of government.[1]

  1. See Appendix, X.