330 POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS. 



for insisting at some length on what appears to be a trite con 

 clusion, must be that, however far nominally recognized, it is 

 actually recognized to a very small extent. Even in our own 

 country, where non- political agencies spontaneously produced 

 and worked are many and large, and still more in most other 

 countries less characterized by them, there is no due con 

 sciousness of the truth that the combined impulses which work 

 through political agencies, can, in the absence of such agencies, 

 produce others through which to work. Politicians reason as 

 though State-instrumentalities have intrinsic power, which 

 they have not, and as though the feeling which creates them 

 has not intrinsic power, which it has. Evidently their 

 actions must be greatly affected by reversal of these ideas. 



