The custom-house may be made to keep him from reading dangerous books, but he'll be sure to take the change out of the laws of the kingdom.

He'll begin to inquire whether they are good or bad, whether they accord with or contradict one another, whether they are obeyed or broken.

No sooner can he calculate without the help of his fingers, than he'll want to look up the figures of the Budget.

But if he has reached the culminating point of knowing how to use his pen, the sight of the smallest bit of paper will give him a sort of political itching.

He will experience an uncontrollable desire to express his sentiments as a man and a citizen, by voting for one representative, and against another.