[The Monikins by J. Fenimore Cooper]@TWC D-Link bookThe Monikins CHAPTER XXV 2/14
The former embraces the provisions of the great ELEMENTARY, and the latter all the provisions of the great ALIMENTARY principle.
The first, accordingly, is limited by the constitution, or the Great National Allegory, while the last is limited by nothing but practice; one contains the proposition, and the other its deductions; this is all hypothesis, that, all corollary.
The two great political landmarks, the two public opinions, the bob-upon-bobs, the rotatory action, and the great and little wheels, are merely inferential, and I shall, therefore, say nothing about them in my present treatise, which has a strict relation only to the fundamental law of the land, or to the Great and Sacred National Allegory. It has been already stated that Leaplow was originally a scion of Leaphigh.
The political separation took place in the last generation, when the Leaplowers publicly renounced Leaphigh and all it contained, just as your catechumen is made to renounce the devil and all his works. This renunciation, which is also sometimes called the DENUNCIATION, was much more to the liking of Leaplow than to that of Leaphigh; and a long and sanguinary war was the consequence.
The Leaplowers, after a smart struggle, however, prevailed in their firm determination to have no more to do with Leaphigh.
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