To balance a large state or society, whether monarchical or republican, on general laws, is a
work of so great difficulty, that no human genius, however comprehensive, is able, by the mere
dint of reason and reflection, to effect it. The judgments of many must unite in this work:
Experience must guide their labour: Time must bring it to perfection: And the feeling of
inconveniencies must correct the mistakes, which they inevitably fall into, in their first trials and
experiments. Hence appears the impossibility, that this undertaking should be begun and carried
on in any monarchy; since such a form of government, ere° civilized, knows no other secret or
policy, than that of entrusting unlimited powers to every governor or magistrate, and subdividing
the people into so many classes and orders of slavery. From such a situation, no improvement
can ever be expected in the sciences, in the liberal arts, in laws, and scarcely in the manual arts
and manufactures. The same barbarism and ignorance, with which the government commences,
is propagated to all posterity, and can never come to a period by the efforts or ingenuity of such
unhappy slaves.
I.
XIV.25
To balance a large state or society, whether monarchical or republican, on general laws, is awork of so great difficulty, that no human genius, however comprehensive, is able, by the meredint of reason and reflection, to effect it. The judgments of many must unite in this work:Experience must guide their labour: Time must bring it to perfection: And the feeling ofinconveniencies must correct the mistakes, which they inevitably fall into, in their first trials andexperiments. Hence appears the impossibility, that this undertaking should be begun and carriedon in any monarchy; since such a form of government, ere° civilized, knows no other secret orpolicy, than that of entrusting unlimited powers to every governor or magistrate, and subdividingthe people into so many classes and orders of slavery. From such a situation, no improvementcan ever be expected in the sciences, in the liberal arts, in laws, and scarcely in the manual artsand manufactures. The same barbarism and ignorance, with which the government commences,is propagated to all posterity, and can never come to a period by the efforts or ingenuity of suchunhappy slaves.I.XIV.25
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