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needful to force , the neutrality of the governments which opposed themselves to her principles . , In this , the only just application of the principle of neutrality , the monarchy of July professed its concurrence ; yet have we but to look to Italy , to Poland , or even to Belgium ^ to see in each instance its practical abandonment .
The Lafitte ministry , with all its virtues of moderation , could never be brought to answer the purposes of either Louis-Philippe or of the people . From the time that Louis-Philippe felt himself secure on the throne of his family , his whole bearing has displayed the strongest partiality towards , so called , legitimate measures ; but , as nothing short of absolute madness would be implied in the attempt to carry out such principles in revolutionized
France , he has contented himself with heading the timid and sophisticating party of the doctrinaires ; a party which , however respectable as to talent , —at least if talent can be respectable without honesty , —yet , by their timidity , rest in that sort of good intentions with which it has been said hell is paved , and allow their fears to be a rational ground for the hopes of regalists of all degree . The ministry , which may be called the Guizot
ministry , ' since M . Guizot , both by his literary reputation and his political bigotry , is the most prominent character therein , took office with the declared intention of making the organization of 1814 combine with the circumstances of 1830 . The lamentable absence of clear-sightedness , as to the requirements arid the strength of popular feeling , which distinguishes this party and its
leaders , MM . Guizot , Thiers , and Royer Collard , were amply evinced in the discussion on the question of hereditary peerage . All thought that in an hereditary order was involved the very essence , the existence of the government . ' With the hereditary principle ( said one of them ) perishes the peerage ; with the peerage the hereditary royalty ; and in the commonwealth itself the principle , of stability , dignity , and duration . '
Much of the same calibre were the prophetic wailings of the English conservatives on the social anarchy and destruction which were to follow our very innocent Reform Bill . Both measures were successful ; we have but to hope that their effects may be as wide-spread * though of a quite different sort , as those which interested alarmists have in both countries predicted . Doctrines formed without the consideration of circumstances , and then
blindly opposed to them , are as much , and no more , likely to stand , than would be the chain-pier , if placed at the Land ' s End , to stem the vast sweep of the Atlantic . There can be no doubt that the state of things in France is again slowly tending towards a great moral or physical revolution . That the former may suffice , all friends of humanity must desire $ but , should that force of itself be insufficient to produce agreement between the spirit of the government and the spirit of the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1832, page 761, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1824/page/41/
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