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176 intellect shows consistency in its higher methods, the spectators deny the existence of character. This is why cunning stateman usually act their comedy under a cloak of rough consistency. —"There is something immoral in Parliaments," so many seem to reason even now, there one may have views quite opposed to the govern"We ought unconditionally to adopt that view which the gracious sovereign commands Eleventh commandment in many an honest, aged brain, especially in the north of Germany. We deride it as an obsolete fashion; but formerly it was the moral law. Perhaps some day the mockers will attack that which is now considered moral among the younger parliamentary generation, namely, the policy of placing party before one's own wisdom, and of answering every question on the public weal in such wise as may fill the sails of party with a favourable gust of wind. "We must take that view of the subject which the position of the party demands," such would be the canon. In the service of morals like these we new meet with overy kind of sacrifice, self-effacement, and martyrdom. —In countries inhabited by gentle-minded people there may be found even