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The word aristocracy, distinctive of these particular classes, we use in a conventional sense only, and beg leave to protest, in limine, against any other acceptation of the term. We have nothing to do with that; these are thy terms, our Public; thou art responsible for the use made of them.
A proposition so extraordinary as this last ought to have been made out in limine, since the most important deductions are drawn from it. But, though Burke insisted on drawing his deductions from it with sweeping impetuosity, neither he nor any one else has yet succeeded in establishing that all-important proposition. Burke's Correspondence, iii. 157.
Besides, great men being exceptions, anomalies, or as the current expression has it, "spontaneous variations," we may ask in limine whether their psychology is explicable by means of simple formulæ, as with the average man, or whether even monographs teach us no more concerning their nature than general theories that are never applicable to all cases.
Whether the moral and economic results of Prohibition overbalance this rising wave of crime, time will tell. In limine, let us note the significant fact that this spirit of revolt against authority is not confined to the political state, and therefore its causes lie beyond that sphere of human action.
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