60 On the Importance of 
pay taxes, and make voluntary contributions, 
unless he has power to persuade them to take 
as much pleasure in earning money for the 
‘service of the state, as in consuming these 
luxuries. ue 
- There are two modes of attempting to 
produce a political effect through the medium 
of public discussion. Some direct their doc- 
trmes entirely to the candour of statesmen, 
and consider the existing habits of the com- 
munity at large as facts which must be taken 
as they are found, without depending on the 
possibility of moulding them to particular 
purposes. Others address the mass of society 
as consisting of persons, who, when once in- 
formed of their interests, may be roused to 
patriotic feelings sufficient to make them 
cheerfully submit to great privations. It is 
not necessary to determine whether statesmen 
or the rest of the inhabitants of this country, 
exhibit the greatest patriotism and self-denial, 
or which of the two classes is most slavishly 
tied down by immediate appetite, and by the 
homage demanded by the caprice of fashion. 
But the prevalence of public virtue in either 
class of persons, would certainly promote it 
in the other. Where a nation is universally 
‘ patriotic, there exists the greatest spur to 
patriotism among statesmen ; and, on the other 
