Excerpt from Observations on the Popery Laws
In some cases, certain disorders must be left to themselves, to work off noxious humours: it being more prudent to take their cure from the hand of time, than to precipitate remedies which never operate profitably, when they are administered unseasonably. In more hopeful cases, however, this work of time may be safely anticipated; and when it can, hesitation would be imprudent, and delay pernicious. The lingering disease may fatigue, the growing hectic may alarm, the patient: and a new remedy will be adopted the sooner, that the old contributed but little to the relief, and still less to the recruit of nature, in any stage of the disorder.
To apply these general observations to our own case, it mould be noticed, that after the reduction of the old Irish natives, on the commencement of the seventeenth century, our Constitution, then in its infancy, exhibited uncommon marks of vigour. That after suffering violent convulsions in the time of Charles I; it soon recovered new strength, and from a promising state of youth immediately after the Restoration of Charles II, it arrived by quick approaches to maturity in the reign of William the third.
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