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-, 70 the state. Each mutually
eonpPd Is fed. The minor channels
fse0s .,;np as they flow, return te sws tns
s0'lsp oational reservoir, which eserfows
g'':u ,urn with 40 augmented force OF
10 :, and assimilases 10 itself whatever
H. Soh therefore is the civil desposisna OF
rss,eh government. The hve means
~ s.aa,roul, and the securities of mode
Q Exercise of the sovereign power-con.
' ,,,,on and aristocracy OF privileged
s,n..e,aud acknowledged corporations, long
ss mo.als aud manners, have no exisss
p. s. One supreme will governs every
. nm Treaties are without sanction aud
.I'o noblic faith the private virtue OF one
.'so has Affected every thug BY his con.
REGARDED ia its second poist ofVlsw, as
military despotism, the French tsfm
q government is siill more worthy OF at
..s;oo. Bonapar.e is the Genghls Khan
sagurope. He knows 40 law but the
.nore,-no legislative assembly but the
49, r The sword is hi. seepsre, the camp
;s ,sabiust. Uni,ing the military sim.
.,;r;v oe the Tatar conquerors with The
irn;l;,a,z scienee Of Europe, he rests cot a
",osn, from his martial habiis; he IS
ssr !, safe 10 take the 6eld 10 the very
;..,.,, Of his necessity. 10 peace as IN
49,. ..ss he il ia state of encamPren', aud
s. msole re- sources Of bis nation are rea"
A. :, his call, as the sword which is sos
D,uasd 10 IFS sheath by his side. HE'S 10
sr,,y sense of the word a conqueror. and
a military monarch. His system OF RUS
!. that al The feuduA system pusgee et,t's
aoe;ea, weakness. He is an emperor, an
,moeror 10 the ssric,es: sense OF tae WORD
>, srnoloyed in The lower Ronau efaPiFe-
an emuel or at the head OF conf<dera'e oth
GERS. all connected with ,5e chat, aod 's''a
each other, by common interest, an EN-.
neror elected by has fottue and his guards,
governing his people with fnTiRaty daspo
,ism, ami, retaining his army by nli'ta,y
dIsc;pline. His pssfscts and sthicers arc
bu, SO Macy Caesars, was govern me d's's-
ant provinces under their patron and po-
liticaI father, the great AugSsis's. This
system ofempire, as it is founted,Tsa must
il BE- maintained by conquest. Like the
principle of motion, il ceases 10 exist when
il ceases to procssd. II has moreover a
sstill more fatal characteristic. Ine-adage
ancient as the world, Moks nurdt sua, does
not apply to il. It easilv admits OF acces-
siou. IL another kingdom Is added lsEe-
qaires bst another prsiecs.
The history of mankind Is as uniform as
the materials ef.hnman action. sials empire
Will be soonercr later overturned by the iea-
lousies of the confederate princes. Buc from
its present and immediate energy, it WILL in
time overthrow everything aroundit. King
dom aftsr kicglom will fsll into It's mass, tlli,
/. ike the, death of the poet, having, destroyed
every thing about it, it viii terminate by prey
ing on itself A new system will then sue
! ,ceed. The present monarchles OF Europe
are the fragments Of. the -feudal system
When the military system, under which Eu-
rope must now, suffer for some centuries shall
In Its turn become split sRd shattered, cur
posterity viii behold new ,fornss OF empire,
and modes of rule, which prophecy it9ea,
seeing through the feggy vista CT time, could
scarcely believe, though t were the hager Of
Divinity that pointed tothem.
As to the personal character of Bonapate,
imagination, accustomed sc the, ordinary
Course of nature, aserts from it with incredu-
tty. Every age has ats standard of vice or
. otyirtue. The asrocisY Of the age of Tiberi-
Us was not to be expected in the nineteenth
century. Human reason, as It was supposed,
had made some progress ia the lapse of SO
many eenturies--hal kept pace at least.with
the procession of the equinoX-- had advanced
with the maturitysof nature. this even adj
united deu5t,--the immediate gilt Of Hea-
tsen ltself-ths Spirit Clt1fstianity, had pas.
SEQ over the surface OF the moral world, and
soiened the senomzot original rlaligaityy and
pnmegai evil. 1t was not, therefore, to be
expected, that the course of time, returning
Is wereAby backward, current, should re-
I produce IN the nineteenth century the