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I Am Always Nearest To Myself," Says The Latin Proverb.

The Great Cause Of Revolutions Is This, That While Nations Move Onward, Constitutions Stand Still.

The Ascendency Of The Sacerdotal Order Was Long The Ascendency Which Naturally And Properly Belonged To Intellectual Superiority.

Language, The Machine Of The Poet, Is Best Fitted For His Purpose In Its Rudest State. Nations, Like Individuals, First Perceive, And Then Abstract. They Advance From Particular Images To General Terms. Hence The Vocabulary Of An Enlightened Society Is Philosophical, That Of A Half-civilized People Is Poetical.

Those Who Have Read History With Discrimination Know The Fallacy Of Those Panegyrics And Invectives Which Represent Individuals As Effecting Great Moral And Intellectual Revolutions, Subverting Established Systems, And Imprinting A New Character On Their Age. The Difference Between One Man And Another Is By No Means So Great As The Superstitious Crowd Suppose.