Called without expectation, and compelled without previous inclination, though undoubtedly at the best period of time both for England and America, to erect suddenly new systems of laws for their future government, they adopted the method of a wise architect, in erecting a new palace for the residence of his sovereign. As Copley painted Chatham, West, Wolf, and Trumbull, Warren and Montgomery as Dwight, Barlow, Trumbull, and Humphries composed their verse, and Belknap and Ramzay history as Godfrey invented his quadrant, and Rittenhouse his planetarium as Boylston practised inoculation, and Franklin electricity as Paine exposed the mistakes of Raynal, and Jefferson those of Buffon, so unphilosophically borrowed from the Recherches Philosophiques sur les Américains those despicable dreams of de Pauw - neither the people, nor their conventions, committees, or sub-committees, considered legislation in any other light than ordinary arts and sciences, only as of more importance. It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had any interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the inspiration of heaven, any more than those at work upon ships or houses, or labouring in merchandize or agriculture: it will for ever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses. Although the detail of the formation of the American governments is at present little known or regarded either in Europe or America, it may hereafter become an object of curiosity. The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature: and if men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, imposture, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history. Is the jealousy of power, and the envy of superiority, so strong in all men, that no considerations of public or private utility are sufficient to engage their submission to rules for their own happiness? Or is the disposition to imposture so prevalent in men of experience, that their private views of ambition and avarice can be accomplished only by artifice? - … There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous yet nothing can be inferred from it more than this, that the multitude have always been credulous, and the few artful. and modern nations, in the consecrations of kings, and in several superstitious chimeras of divine rights in princes and nobles, are nearly unanimous in preserving remnants of it. “It was the general opinion of ancient nations, that the divinity alone was adequate to the important office of giving laws to men. When clear prospects are opened before vanity, pride, avarice, or ambition, for their easy gratification, it is hard for the most considerate philosophers and the most conscientious moralists to resist the temptation. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy.
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There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
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It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either. “I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy.