In these early and unrefined ages, the jarring part of a certain chaotic constitution supported their several pretensions by the sword.
Experience and policy have since taught other methods.
At nunc res agitur tenui pulmone rubetae.
But how far corruption, venality, the contempt of honor, the oblivion of all duty to our country, and the most abandoned public prostitution, are preferable to the more glaring and violent effects of faction, I will not presume to determine.

Sure I am that they are very great evils.
I have done with the forms of government.

During the course of my inquiry you may have observed a very material difference between my manner of reasoning and that which is in use amongst the abettors of artificial society.

They form their plans upon what seems most eligible to their imaginations, for the ordering of mankind.

I discover the mistakes in those plans, from the real known consequences which have resulted from them.