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hand thsit deBpoifed no dthet to bestow it on us , and that never resumes wftat has once * been givfen ; vf § bftve the freedom ofmtin ; a godd—bow different from the citizenship o # Rome !
- ~~ that incN&s&s lit vartie With « the number of its partiirp a ^ ors , that , dependent on no changiii ^ form of 6 o mstitution , on no state revolutidii , i % ste on th 6 firm foundation of re&ft * n &&&
justice . q Av The gainte therefor ** apf * aroftt , arid the question barely tbkf ** Wta thfere no nearer path ib the go&i ? Co ^ t 3 d not this salutary * chaftg # Mite fiffM evolved with tess viofence ^ frdifi but df the Roman state , and was it
incumbent on the human race to p # Sfc through the mournful perils from the 4 th to the 16 th century ? - ¦ Reason cannot endufe in a flroiM of anarchy . Ever striving after c 6 ncdrd > she father runs the risk of defending
Drder , with ill fortune , than of dispensing with it , withlhdifferfencei Were tK& national migrations arid the middle ages which ensued a necessary condition of our better t \\ ri&R
Asia may give us some expMMtidife on , this point . Why did rtWK ^ iah Republics spring up after tHfef ^ x ^ h Df Alexanders ai-ihy i WKf ^ dQ fte 86 e Ghina , coMemned to sad ua ^
ifetmity , grow old iri etelnai chSdhWft ? Beca ^ u ^ e Alexander txrad ^ € ^ n ^[ i «^ ts with liutnanity , befckuye tW eliitill band of his Greeks vanish ^! aoidiigst the millions of the gre&t king ; be ^ u ^ e the hordes Of the Mantschu we ^ l ^ t
unmarked in enormous China . They had only subjugated merf ; la ^^ and manners , religion and the st&te , had remained conquerors . For despoticttily-governed states there is-no resdtitfee but destruction . Sparing cbnqil £ r 6 # s supply only colonists - > they n 6 urtish the sick body , atid do but perpetufele
disease . If the pested land be not to poison the healthy vanquished , if the German be ndt to degenerate int 6 a Roman , in Gaiil , as the Greek did into a Persian , at Babylon , the form must be broken up which might be dangerous to his spirit of imitation ; and on the new arena on which he has
entered , he must exist as the stronger party . The Scythian desert opens , and pours forth a rude race over the east . Their j > ath is marked with blood ; towns sink behind them in ashes ;
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gi ? cRlSg ^ fe feArift * stirortlll ^ ' ^ - ^ Ana ^ d \ ¥ * U - » tratiger # ^ ejpimte frotti thtesfe cihiWl ^ n ^ f natui ^ i | TKie bridges between Byzatltiiitn * &Ad * Massilitt , between Ale ^ atitfria and R ^ me , are broken j the tittiid mereli ^ tit 1 tas - ten » home ^ ( iiid ti > e lanmWyHv ^ ln ^ ^ hip lies dismasted on 'the ^^ Pfftfid * A waste of waters and mottirtAiffe , a
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578 On the Migration of Nations , the Crusades , and the Middle Ages .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1825, page 578, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2541/page/2/
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