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what you .were going to do in that wild conn- 

 try, said, you were going to form a community, 

 who would be " content to worship one God." 

 " I hope not," said I, " for he will have plagues 

 " enough without adding a priest to the num- 

 'Vber." But, perhaps, I was wrong: for AARON 

 was of great assistance to the leader of the Is 

 raelites. 



982. As if the inevitable effects of disappoint 

 ment and hardship were not sufficient, you 

 had, too, a sort of partnership in the leaders. 

 This is sure to produce feuds and bitterness in 

 the long run. Partnership-sovereignties have 

 furnished the world with numerous instances 

 of poisonings and banishments and rottings in 

 prison. It is as much as merchants, who post 

 their books every Sunday, can do to get along 

 without quarrelling. Of man and wife, though 

 they are flesh of flesh and bone of bone, the 

 harmony is not always quite perfect, except in 

 France, where the husband is the servant, and 

 in Germany and Prussia, where the wife is the 

 slave. But, as for a partnership sovereignty, 

 without disagreement, there is but one single in 

 stance upon record ; that, I mean, was of the two 

 kings of , Brentford, whose cordiality was, you 

 know, so perfect, that they both smelt to the 

 same nosegay. This is, my dear Sir, no ban 

 tering. I am quite serious. It is impossible 



