The Miscellaneous Writings And Speeches of Lord Macaulay
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But, if he means that we ought to leave the facts, with all their apparent inconsistencies, unexplained — to lay down a general principle of the widest extent, and to deduce doctrines from that prin- ciple by syllogistic argument, without pausing to consider whether those doctrines be or be not consistent with the facts, — then he means what is irrational ; and this is clearly what he does mean : for he immediately begins, without offering the , least explanation of the contradictory ap- pearan...ces which he has himself described, to go beyond the surface in the following manner : — "That one human being will desire to render the person and property of another subservient to his pleasures, notwith- standing the pain or loss of pleasure which it may occasion to that other individual, is the foundation of government. The desire of the object implies the desire of the power necessary to accomplish the object." And thus he proceeds to deduce consequences directly inconsistent with what he has himself stated respecting the situation of the Danish people.
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