Excerpt from Statics of Statu-Quo Permanency: Or the Maximum of Taxability Made a Measure of the Durability of Any Present Order of Things
The law and order of any community may be said to rest upon a double basis: first, upon the principles of its particular form of government; and next, upon the fisco-political position of that government. Any statu-quo is therefore permanent in proportion as those principles are sound, and as they are, at the same time, accompanied by a fisco-political position more or less solvent.
It is highly important to ascertain the true principles constituting these two bases, and particularly those of the latter, because no form of government, however perfect, can possess, in itself alone, the quality of infinite durability - that quality being the result of the conjoial virtues of the bases in question.
As long as these two bases of law and order continue, as it were, wandering about in search of a fixed and immoveable point whereon to rest for ever, so long will the organisations of society exhibit a wavering uncertain character.
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