...conflict, and begin to coalesce. And at length a system of justice and order is educed out of the chaos. Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying...self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be * Orlando Furioso, Canto 43. free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the...

...brilliancy leads many to overlook his profound political philosophy. " Many politicians of our time arc in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition,...who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim I If men are to wait for liberty till they have become wise and good in slavery, they...

...conflict, and begin to coalesce. And at length a system of justice and order is educed out of the chaos. Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying...the old story, who resolved not to go into the water until he had learnt to swim ! If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery,...

...conflict, and begin to coalesce ; — at length a system of justice and order is educed out of the chaos. " Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying...go into the water till he had learnt to swim ! If 13* men are to wait for liberty, till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait for...

...conflict, and begin to coalesce. And at length a system of justice and onler is educed out of the chaos. er about the transactions in his family, flew into...proceeded to invent stories which might justify its a am fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to...

...the words of a writer, whose brilliancy leads many to overlook his profound political philosophy. " Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying...who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim ! If men are to wait for liberty till they have become wise and good in slavery, they...

...have become wise and good in slavery. That, to use another figure of the gifted Macauley, " would be worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim." But as the man who for the first time trusts himself in the water should be particularly...

...DOWN SLAVERY. CHAT. XVI. struggle, was that hope given up ; so plausible does the proposition seem, that " no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom." " Yet this maxim," says a brilliant writer of our day, " is worthy of the fool in the old story, who...

...we are conquered." HP SWIMMING. — Lord Macaulay, in his essay on Milton, has the following : — "Many politicians of our time are in the habit of...freedom ; the maxim is worthy of the fool in the old ttory, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learnt to swim." What " old story " is alluded...

...of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim! If to be free, till they are fit to use their freedom. The 31 men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever....