Know thyself, and, knowing, rule that strange world of thine.

Were it not a doom, were it not a frightful doom, that it should come to rule thee?
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Government from without! Government of to-day, Government abroad as we see it in every journal, in every letter that we open--how heavy, how heavy is the ball and chain the nations wear! If we alone in this land go free, if for four golden years we have moved with lightness, look to it lest a gaoler come! Government! What is the ideal government?
It is a man of business, worthy and esteemed, administering his client's affairs with thoroughness, economy, and honour.

It is a wise judge, holding the balances with a steadfast hand, sitting there clothed reverently, to judge uprightly and to do no more.

It is a skilled council, a picked band, an honourable Legion, chosen of the multitude, to determine the line of march for an advancing civilization; to make such laws as are according to reason and necessity and to make none that are not, and to provide for the keeping of the law that is made.