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The Celt and Saxon

CHAPTER XVI
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Coldly worshipped on the whole, he can create an enthusiasm when his roast-beef influence mounts up to peaceful skies and the domestic English world spins with him.

What he does not like will then be the forbidding law of a most governable people, what he does like the consenting.

If it is declared that argument will be inefficacious to move him, he is adored in the form of post.

A hint of his willingness in any direction, causes a perilous rush of his devotees.

Nor is there reason to suppose we have drawn the fanatical subserviency from the example of our subject India.


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