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 the best Government in Europe. I would gladly give up my taste for talking politics to secure such a state of things in England.'

He held that the mild absolutism of Prussia was better for the people than 'that great juggle of the "English Constitution."'

These are the ideas of Richard Cobden. They do not command my assent, but they mark, with his customary clearness, the essential difference between the civil rights which constitute individual freedom and the political power which is in reality the imposition of public duties.