Creator of its magistrates, it should know at once to respect them and to judge them.

In the sudden reform of a whole nation, accustomed to live by abuses, each individual displaced should bear with patience his privations, and submit to a change of habits.

This nation should have the courage to conquer its liberty; the power to defend it, the wisdom to establish it, and the generosity to extend it to others.
And can we ever expect the union of so many circumstances?
But suppose that chance in its infinite combinations should produce them, shall I see those fortunate days.

Will not my ashes long ere then be mouldering in the tomb?
Here, sunk in sorrow, my oppressed heart no longer found utterance.

The Genius answered not, but I heard him whisper to himself: Let us revive the hope of this man; for if he who loves his fellow creatures be suffered to despair, what will become of nations?
The past is perhaps too discouraging; I must anticipate futurity, and disclose to the eye of virtue the astonishing age that is ready to begin; that, on viewing the object she desires, she may be animated with new ardor, and redouble her efforts to attain it..