...we now look with comforL and good hope. Our rulers will best, promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate...every department of the State. Let the Government do this : the People will assuredly do the rest." Such was the creed of the Liberal ; now it is credited...

...we now look with comfort and good hope. Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate...every department of the State. Let the Government do this, the people will assuredly do the rest. — MACAULAY, Essays. prudential maintenance envelop...

...rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves Tl<f their own f legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its...every department of the state. Let the Government do this : the People will assuredly do the rest. MR. ROBERT MONTGOMERY. (APRIL, 1830.) 1. The Omnipresence...

...we now look with comfort and good hope. Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate...every department of the state. Let the Government do this : the People will assuredly do the rest. MR. ROBERT MONTGOMERY'S POEMS (APRIL, 1830) 1. The...

...we now look with comfort and good hope. Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate...every department of the state. Let the Government do this : the People will assuredly do the rest. ON CROKER'S "BOSWELL" [From The Edinburgh Review,...

...much the same thing in the following words: Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate...by observing strict economy in every department of state. Thus we see biologists, psychologists, historians, philosophers, statesmen, economists and engineers...

...do good would do harm. As Macaulay put it, "Rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate...punishment, by maintaining peace, by defending property .... and by observing strict economy in every department of the state". This gospel of freedom from...

...prudence and energy of the people, that England has hitherto been carried forward in civilisation ; and it is to the same prudence and the same energy...every department of the state. Let the Government do this — the People will assuredly do the rest. No. CL will be published in April. INDEX. A AGATHIAS,...

...was by Thomas Babington Macaulay, in the Edinburgh Review of January, 1830, when he said: Our rules will best promote the improvement of the people by...every department of the state. Let the Government do this — the people will assuredly do the rest. Five years later, in 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville,...

...1925.) A hundred years ago Macaulay, the great historian, wrote : It is not by the intermeddling of the omniscient and omnipotent state but by the prudence...their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural pun'shment, by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing...