One race spend the The main cause of a "The great inheritance of man is a commonwealth of blunders. lives in botching the errors transmitted to them by another. political-i. e. all the worst and most general blunders-is this. The same rule we app to individual cases we will not apply to the public. All men consent that swindling for horse is swindling: they punish the culprit and condemn the fault. But in a state the is no such unanimity. Swindling! Lord help you, it is called by some fine name, an grows grandiloquent, and styles itself 'policy.' In consequence of this, there is alway a battle between those who will call things by their right names, and those who pert naciously give them the wrong ones."-SIR E. B. LYTTON. |