But these are remedies which need time to do their work, and ...
But
these are remedies which
need time to do their work, and in the interim the catastrophe might have happened.A fermentation unknown to an earlier England was stirring in the commons.
Eighteenth-century society was stable, and felt itself to be stable.
From the Revolution to the fall of the Bastille, the thought of subversion, of any social crisis more serious than an election riot or a no-popery riot, never entered the mind of Governments.
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