If any member, seeing an improper appointment in contemplation, or any abuse in the management of the affairs of the Society continued, raise a voice against it, the ready answer is, Why should you interfere?
it may not be quite the thing you approve; but it is no affair of yours .-- If, on the other hand, it do relate to himself, the reply is equally ready.

It is immediately urged: The question is of a personal nature; you are the last person who ought to bring it forward; you are yourself interested.

If any member of the Society, feeling annoyed at the neglect, or hurt by the injuries or insults of the Council, show signs of remonstrance, it is immediately suggested to him that he is irritated, and ought to wait until his feelings subside, and he can judge more coolly on the subject; whilst with becoming candour they admit the ill-treatment, but urge forbearance.

If, after an interval, when reflection has had ample time to operate, the offence seems great as at first, or the insult appears unmitigated by any circumstances on which memory can dwell,--if it is then brought forward, the immediate answer is, The affair is out of date--the thing is gone by--it is too late to call in question a transaction so long past.

Thus, if a man is interested personally, he is unfit to question an abuse; if he is not, is it probable that he will question it?
and if, notwithstanding this, he do so, then he is to be accounted a meddler.