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excesses. This liberal and conservative element has been 

 wanting to us in France. In our own day, as formerly, 

 absenteeism has effected, even in a political point of view, 

 nearly all the mischief; and this is the reason why these 

 two apparently distinct causes of prosperity liberty 

 without revolutions, and the country feeling are really 

 but one. 



