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their own institutions of government ; and to 

 note with attention the conduct of their rulers ? 

 For it is not in the passions and interests of our 

 representatives, but in the state of society itself 

 that we must look for the corruption and disso-^ 

 lution, or for the improvement and preservation 

 of ouf civil government and state. To a more 

 important subject we cannot turn our attention. 



