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Excerpt from A Treatise on Civil Polity and Political Economy: With an Appendix, Containing a Brief Account of the Powers, Duties, and Salaries, of National, State, County and Town Officers, for the Use of Schools and Academies
As our government depends directly upon the people for its support and preservation, it is idle to suppose that they will feel a very ardent attachment for, or prove very able supporters of a system of whose principles they are ignorant; but while their Opinions, although correct, are founded on ignorance, they will ever be liable to be led astray by the wild theories and idle speculations so prevalent ina country where public opinion is the ultimate tribunal of appeal. There is scarcely a theory, how ever extravagant or absurd, that will not find supporters either among the ignorant or the selfish and designing; and if public opinion be unenlightened, there is no antidote beyond it that can save us from the evils of any destructive, disorganizing, popular delusion.
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