Locke, Of Goi^emment, oliap. viii, xix

44.' Burke {Speech on the Army Eatimaies, 1790. Works, vol. V, p. 4), dira : « that conildence, of ail public ^irtues, was the niost dangcrous, and jealousy in an Houseof Gommons, of ail public vices, tiie most toierable; cspedally where the number and the charge of standing arniies in tiroeof peacc v^as the question ». — En .septembre 1B16, la Revue d'Edimbourg dira de mOme : « Confidence in our nilcrs, ^hether arising frum supineness or timidity, or personal prédilection, is as foolisli as it is unv^'orthy of a frce people. — V. encore, dans la lle\ue d'Edimbourg, en ftWrier 1811 : It is never to be forgottcn, that the great and ultimate barner against corruption, oppression, and arbilrary i>owcr, must alvvays l>e raised on public opinion, — and on opinion so vahii^l and so asscrted, as to point resolutely to résistance if it be once insulted, or set at défiance.

— Et en juillet 180î> : ail guverninent hâve tendency to bccome arbilrary ; and ail législative asscmblies, whether rlected or heredilary, havo a similar propensity. The onty check to tlu* encroachnients of power, ami the oppressions of in ceptive t\ranny is the spirit, the intelligence, the vigilance, the prepared rc«s//ï//ce ofthe pe )ple. — Cf. Graliam Wallns, life of Pirancis Placer p. &).

45. EsiaySy t'-d. iireen, vol. I, p. U3 : Part II, Essay XIl, of the (original <lontmct.

46. Treatite, Book III, I»art H, Sect. V, VI, VU ^'d. tireen, %ol. Il, p. 284).

47. Treatise, Book III, Part II, .Sect. II vol. II, p. i<53 .