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but for the baneful influence of tMs unnatural custom. 

 It is an eastern proverb, that no king is many removes 

 from a shepherd. Most conquerors and founders of dy- 

 nasties have followed the plough or the flock. Nobility, 

 to be in the highest perfection, like the finer varieties of 

 fruits, independent of having its vigour excited by regu- 

 lar married alliance with wilder stocks, would require 

 stated complete renovation, by selection anew, from 

 among the purest crab. In some places, this renovation 

 would not be so soon requisite as in others, and, judging 

 from facts, we would instance Britain as perhaps the soil 

 where nobility will continue the longest untainted. As 

 we advance nearer to the equator, renovation becomes 

 sooner necessary, excepting at high elevation — in many 

 places, every third generation, at least with the Cauca- 

 sian breed, although the finest stocks be regularly im- 

 ported. This renovation is required as well physically 

 as morally. 



It is chiefly in regard to the interval of time between 

 the period of necessary feudal authority, and that when 

 the body of the population having acquired the power of 

 self-government from the spread of knowledge, claim a 

 community of rights, that we have adverted to the use of 

 war. The manufacturer, the merchant, the sailor, the 

 capitalist, whose mind is not corrupted by the indolence 

 induced under the law of entail, are too much occupied 

 to require any stimulant beyond what the game in the 

 wide field of commercial adventure affords. A great 

 change in the circumstances of man is obviously at hand. 



