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Rh action, of arming yourself with the indifference of experience." Edward Lorraine.—"We should, then, never act, if we were so indifferent to the result." Mr. Morland.—"And all the better for yourself if you never enter the gladiatorial arena of public life: you will sacrifice time, health, and talents; you will be paragraphed—probably pelted; you will die of an inflammation, or a consumption; and leave it a debatable point to historians, what was the extent of the injury you did your country." Edward Lorraine.—"Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion: if we all thought alike—with you, for example—there would at once be an end to all mutual assistance and improvement." Mr. Morland.—"Do not be alarmed; there are plenty of restless spirits who will always be happy to take upon them all the affairs of the world. Atlas was only an ingenious allegory." Edward Lorraine.—"This infinite variety in men's minds —the innate superiority of some, the equally innate inferiority of others—has always seemed to me the great argument against the system of universal equality. There is no natural Agrarian law. Distinctions, from that