Locke, Of Government, chap. vin, xix

44.' Burke (Speech on the Army Estimâtes, 1790. Works, vol. V, p. 4), dira : « that confidence, of ail public virtues, was the most dangerous, andjealousy in an House of Commons, of ail public vices, the most tolerable ; especially where the number and the charge of standing armies in time of peace was the question ». — En septembre 1816, la Revue d'Edimbourg dira de même : « Confidence in our rulers, whether arising from supineness or timidity, or personal prédilection, is as foolish as it is unworthy of a free people. — V. encore, dans la Revue d'Edimbourg, en février 1811 : It is never to be forgotten, that the great and ultimate barrier against corruption, oppression, and arbitrary power, must ahvays be raised on public opinion, — and on opinion so valued and so asserted, as to point resolutely to résistance if it be once insulted, or set at défiance.

— Et en juillet 1809 : ail government hâve tendency to become arbitrary ; and ail législative assemblies, whether elected or hereditary, hâve a similar propensity. The only check to the encroachments of power, and the oppressions of inceptive tyranny is the spiiit, tlie intelligence, the vigilance, the prepared résistance of the people. — Cf. Graham Wallas, life of Francis Place, p. 63.

45. Essays, éd. Green, vol. I, p. 443 : Part II, Essay XII, of the Original Contract.

46. Treatise. Book III, Part II, Sect. V, VI, VII (éd. Green, vol. II, p. 284).