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When Sir Philip Sidney saw the enthusiasm which agitated every man, woman, and child in the Netherlands against Philip and D'Alva, he told Queen Elizabeth that it was the spirit of God, and that it was invincible. What is the spirit which seems to move and unsettle every other man in England and on the Continent at this time? Upon my conscience, and judging by St. John's rule, I think it is a special spirit of the devil -- and a very vulgar devil too!
Your modern political economists say that it is a principle in their science -- that all things _find_ their level; -- which I deny; and say, on the contrary, that the true principle is, that all things are _finding_ their level like water in a storm.