Samuel Taylor Coleridge [chapter]

John Morrow
2018 Conservative Moments  
The positive ends [of government] are, 1st to make the means of subsistence more easy to each individual: 2d. that . . . he should derive from the union and division of labour a share of the comforts and conveniences, which humanize and ennoble his nature; and at the same time the power of perfecting himself in his own branch of industry . . . 3dly. The hope of bettering his own condition and that of his children. . . . (and lastly) the development of those faculties which are essential to his
more » ... uman nature by the knowledge of his moral and religious duties, and the increase of his intellectual powers . . . [T] hat Constitution is the best, under which the average sum of useful knowledge is the greatest, and the causes that awaken and encourage talent and genius, the most powerful and various. 1 [A] Constitution is an idea arising out of the idea of a state; and because our whole history from Alfred onwards demonstrates the continued infl uence of such an idea, or ultimate aim, on the minds of our fore-fathers, .
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