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 ments, etc., etc. It is this organized head, therefore, which sets the country in motion, and decides what it shall do. Thus it is manifestly in ends.

Next to the head or supreme class in this organized body, the state, we have another class who act as agents. They do not consider the wisdom or expediency of what the head decides to do. This is no part of their business. Therefore they have no need of the knowledge requisite for settling such questions. But they know how to execute the intentions of those above them—how to accomplish the objects at which the head aims. They consist of all those officials who are appointed as agents in executing the designs of government, such as postmasters, collectors of customs, civil engineers, army and navy officers, superintendents of national works, etc. This class are obviously in the thought of causes or means, having the knowledge of how to accomplish the ends which their superiors (the head) conceive and desire.

But this class of officials do not perform the manual labor that is necessary before the intentions of the head are ultimated. They do not sort, stamp and distribute the letters; they do not weigh, gauge and measure the imports; they do not carry the chain, arrows, compass, or theodolite; they do not shoulder the musket nor wheel the artillery; they do not handle the brick or trowel. But another class come in here, whose knowledge is more limited than that of either of the other two, and who are, therefore, lower in the scale of natural intelligence. They have not that reach of mental vision which belongs to the first or highest class, nor that su-