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& Study, but that is the bane of pleasure | & Study, but that is the bane of pleasure | ||
Latest revision as of 15:44, 22 July 2018
A.2. Government demands in the Prince a thoro' knowledge of the People, this cannot be acquir'd without great labour & Study, but that is the bane of pleasure & revolts the natural idleness that attends us, absolute power removes this difficulty, dispenses from all application & fatiguing attention, & reduces Men to a Servile compliance to our will; in this Government as Aristotle observes there can exist but one freeman, all the rest are Slaves.
In the most moderate Monarchy, in the freest Republic there are Seperate interests, deletion & their /deletion addition either /addition proceeding deletion unclear /deletion from the inequality of Men ^ ^ addition their /addition different views, deletion of /deletion ambition & c. deletion unclear /deletion ; this furnishes opportunitys of dividing citizens, & by that means of humbling the power both of the Nobility & people, besides
