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In the first step beyond tlie condition of the wandering 

 savage, while the lower classes from ignorance remained 

 as helpless children, mankind naturally fell into clans 

 under paternal or feudal government ; but as children, 

 when grown up to maturity, with the necessity for pro- 

 tection, lose the subordination to parental authority, so 

 the great mass of the present population requiring no 

 guidance from a particular class of feudal lords, will not 

 continue to tolerate any hereditary claims of authority of 

 one portion of the population over their fellow-men ; nor 

 any laws to keep up rank and wealth corresponding 

 to this exclusive power. — It would be wisdom in the 

 noblesse of Europe to abolish every claim or law which 

 serves to point them out a separate class, and, as quickly 

 as possible, to merge themselves into the mass of the po- 

 pulation. It is a law manifest in nature, that when the 

 use of any thing is past, its existence is no longer kept up<^ 

 Although the necessity for the existence of feudal lords 

 is past, yet the same does not hold in respect to a heredi- 

 tary head or King ; and the stability of this head of the 

 government will, in no way, be lessened by such a change. 

 In the present state of European society, perhaps no other 

 rule can be so mild and efficient as that of a liberal be- 

 nevolent monarch, assisted by a popular representative 

 Parliament. The poorest man looks up to his king as his 

 own, with aifection and pride, and considers him a pro- 

 tector ; while he only regards the antiquated feudal lord 

 with contempt. The influence of a respected hereditary 

 family, as head of a country, is also of great utility in 



