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It is not more celebrated for its day than Frederic's for his, and principle teaches that a bureaucracy, elated by sudden success, and marvelling at its own merit, is the most unimproving and shallow of Governments. Not only does a bureaucracy thus tend to under-government, in point of quality; it tends to over-government, in point of quantity.
These Rights of Man helped to produce alike the anarchy of the first French Revolution and the remedial despotism of the Jacobins and their successor Napoleon; and the oscillation between under-government and over-government, between individualism and socialism has continued to this day.
His successor, Ensor, representing the same view, finds an appropriate topic in the wrongs of Ireland. Irish poverty, he holds, is plainly due not to over-population but to under-government, meaning, we must suppose, misgovernment. But the same cause explains other cases. The 'people are poor and are growing poorer, and there is no mystery about it.
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