In government, as in virtue, the hardest of hard things is to make progress. Formerly the reason for this was that single person who was sovereign was generally either selfish, ignorant, timid or a fool - albeit there was now and again one who was wise. Nowadays the reason is that the many, the people, who are sovereign have no single ear which one can approach, and are selfish, ignorant, timid, stubborn, or foolish with the selfishnesses, the ignorances, the stubbornnesses