A Fragment On Progress: Inaugural Address Delivered On His Installation As ...
A Fragment On Progress: Inaugural Address Delivered On His Installation As ...
Balfour, Arthur James Balfour, Earl Of, 1848-1930
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We often talk, and sometimes think, as if its political constitution was to the State what its anatomical conformation is to the living animal : and as if therefore we might argue from "structure" to "function" with the same degree of assurance in the one case as we habitually do in the other. But there is little analogy between the two. The trite com- parison between a community and an organism is doubtless suggestive, and may be useful. But it can only be employed in security by those who rem...ember that among the organs through which the vital energies of 46 Digitized by Google society act, and by which they are conditioned, those whose character is described in constitutional text-books, and whose growth is traced in constitutional histories, are among the least interesting, and the least important. If I desired to illustrate the conse- quences which follow upon forgetful- ness of these truths, I might remind you of the absurd controversies, dear to the debating societies of two gene- rations ago, and not perhaps quite forgotten in some political clubs even now, on the relative merits of various abstract forms of government — Monarchical, Republican, Aristocratic, Democratic, and so forth.
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