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Updated: May 6, 2025
The love of ease that luxury brings along with it, the selfish and compromising spirit, in which the members of a polished society countenance each other, and which reverses the principle of patriotism, by sacrificing public interests to private ones, the substitution of intellectual for moral excitement, and the repression of enthusiasm by fastidiousness and ridicule, these are among the causes that undermine a people, that corrupt in the very act of enlightening them; till they become, what a French writer calls "esprits exigeans et caracteres complaisans," and the period in which their rights are best understood may be that in which they most easily surrender them.
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