full authority, they have not always apt instruments. A politician, to do great things, looks for a power, what our workmen call a purchase; and if he finds that power in politics, as in mechanics, he cannot be at a loss to apply it. In the monastic institutions, in my opinion, was found a great power for the mechanism of politic benevolence."

In the endowments for the benefit of the poorer classes, which exist in every corner of the kingdom, might be found a power of no trifling value for raising the more indigent classes morally and physically. Placed under the direction of these classes themselves, but governed in their application by some wise rules, a new development of moral force-of more or less efficacy in every place would be brought into operation. Jealousy and discontent, as against the classes above them, arising out of these distributions, would be at an end; the poor would be accustomed to a certain degree of administrative discipline of their own appointment; they would gradually acquire more knowledge of those economical laws which govern the transactions of the world; and they would thus be prepared for the exercise of the higher political functions to which they will attain on such an improvement of their condition as shall bring them within the standard adopted as the constitutional test of capacity for the suffrage.

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