New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-07-05
IATENT FORCES PUT u .CTION.

They who framed it want back ia !, 70 hr'' rrinc.-
r,es There was something phiioso c ana id'hi III
ber scheme rs always there is whCl he general mind
is deeply stirred II was not supcrhc Yet they weft
not Undertaking to establish u biics on % hi.id
their state upon artificial plans an hs'faci spocna-
tus Thcv were simply evolving 0ut y tile past what
therein had been LATENT were lreiat -" into free eHbI
ton and unccasing activity vital ''i'' ol1'f th'A VIC
bisO. of their colonization, aud WIDE - the laHi5 from
which they came They had the sweep Of vast impulses
behind hciu The slow tendencies OF centuries came 10
Sudden contamination IN their Declaration, and the iO.ce
of lis niact upon the affairs and tho mind Of the world
was not 10 be measured by its contents alone bui 10y the
relation in which these stood to III the vehement Discus
sion and struggle OF which it was the helt outcome.
This ought 20 be always distinctly observed
The ten cucy is troHg, and has been general. among
those who have introduced great changes in the govern
men, Of States to follow somoplan Of political perhaps
Of social Innovation which cnli5s their judgement, cX-
cites their fancy and 20 make comrly theoretical hab
;aton for tho national household, rather than 20 build
On the ola foundations, expanding the walls ftnG the
hight enarging the doCrway5, enASh,cnlns WIN ne"
wriows the has bat still keeping the strength and re-
neving the age OF an old ard yeucr3tcl structure You
remember Low IN France. IN 1893 and the following
ycars the schemes Of those whom Napoleon called ire
!ro0gists" succeeded each other 10 ono ~ them gam
inc permanent supremacy, though each included I'M
uort3t clements till tn armed Consulate o. 1893 swept
them al into the ar ard put in place OF them ono mas
terfu, genius and ambitious VIII 1Ou remember hoN ih
soain in 1912, the new Constitution proclaimed by
the Cortes was thought TO iEaugrfatc with baHohccnt
provisions VIII ,lly new cya Of development and plog
.ess yet how tie history of tie splendid peninsula
from that day 10 this has been but the record Of sfrs
co TO the death between the Old asl The New the con-
test IS esperate would IN our time as 1t was IL
the first.
II must be always when preceding state OF society
and government which has rot Itself established through
%. r.,tfry ed 4 ay,
fabric however more evidently confOrmed TO night rea-
SON The principle is not strong as tho prejudice
Habit masters invention The new and thcorcc sh'yels
rs force on the obstinate conference Of the old and The
established The modern structure falls AMI il rcphced
while the grim fcuda keep, though SCARED and weather.
worn the very cement seeming gone from lis walls si
scows defiance at the rcd right hand of the lightning
Itself.
II was no such rash speculative change which here was
attempted. The people whose deputies framed orr
Declaration were largely themselves descendants Of En-
oim and those who not had lived long enough
under English institutions to be impressed with their
tendency aud spirit IL was therefore only natural That
even when adopting that ultimate measure which seY: