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Such is the true patriot: such the imagined disinterestedness of demagogues. Such are some of the marks by which false patriotism may be discovered :

'Tis flattering, cruel,

Pompous and full of sound and stupid rage:
Of faith neglectful: heaping wrong on wrong:
Ambitious, selfish :—while the true is calm,
Firm, persevering, more in act than show.

LIBERTY AND EQUALITY.

LIBERTY AND EQUALITY.

THERE are scarcely any words more frequently used, and less understood, than the words "Liberty and Equality."-If by the word Equality it is meant that we are all equally able to do all things; that, for instance, we are all equally good makers of watches or clocks; or equally able to steer a ship in a dangerous channel in a storm, the position is too monstrous to call for refutation. The advocates for such Equality may easily discover their error, by supposing that all men are equally good pugilists, and by trying their theory by a few practical lessons with some of our celebrated professors who are not converts to their doctrines.

If by the word Equality, it is meant that we are all born equal, it must surely be forgotten that some men are born with beautiful and healthy bodies, and some with frames distorted and filled with the most deplorable diseases ;that some minds are fraught with the seeds of wisdom and genius, and some with those of idiotism and madness: and that some men by the industry of their parents, are born to the inheritance of property; and some, by their idleness and vices, to poverty and disgrace.

Nor by the word Equality can it be meant, that we are equal in after life, as it is obvious that we differ in body and in mind, in our passions, and in our possessions.-Some men are diminutive and deformed others tall, athletic, and graceful. There are idiots and lunatics: and there are men of genius and imagination. Some minds are torpid and dreaming; others soft as the air to receive impressions with the vigour of fire when in action. There is every gradation of intellect, from imbecility to Shakspeare and Bacon; and every gradation of moral feeling, from the few who debase themselves and human nature by malevolence, to the many who never see distress without an anxiety to relieve it. Is there not every variety of industry and idleness, from the many who by their steady exertions procure a competence for themselves, and families, to the few who by their drunkenness and profligacy reduce themselves to beggary and their wives and children to the parish.

If by Equality it is meant, that although there are great individual differences, yet men are, upon an average, so equal, that no man can, on account of this difference, claim for himself a benefit to which another may not pretend: this, if rightly understood, is to a certain extent true; that is, we have equal rights to the undisturbed possession of property acquired by our industry. -We have equal rights, if we do not interfere

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