Destroying couldn’t have been said truly and better than the first remedy which was worse than the disease. Faction is like air to fire a food even before it expires. But it could lack the sense to put an end to liberty, which is essential to political life because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its damaging agency. And the second expedient is impracticable as the first would be
Destroying couldn’t have been said truly and better than the first remedy which was worse than the disease. Faction is like air to fire a food even before it expires. But it could lack the sense to put an end to liberty, which is essential to political life because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its damaging agency. And the second expedient is impracticable as the first would be