For the justification of his likeness, after allowing for the defects of execution, he refers to the well-known work of M.Daru.
A history of the progress of political liberty, written purely in the interests of humanity, is still a desideratum in literature.

In nations which have made a false commencement, it would be found that the citizen, or rather the subject, has extorted immunity after immunity, as his growing intelligence and importance have both instructed and required him to defend those particular rights which were necessary to his well-being.

A certain accumulation of these immunities constitutes, with a solitary and recent exception in Switzerland, the essence of European liberty, even at this hour.

It is scarcely necessary to tell the reader, that this freedom, be it more or less, depends on a principle entirely different from our own.

Here the immunities do not proceed from, but they are granted to, the government, being, in other words, concessions of natural rights made by the people to the state, for the benefits of social protection.