It requires great Care and Circumspection, that we Weigh and Ballance
things before we pronounce them to be either Good or Evil: For Men are
Thankful many times for Direct Maledictions, and Mortifie themselves upon
the Mistake of Imaginary Blessings. ’Twas a Wise _Frog_ that Advis’d her
Fellows to think well on’t, before they rung the Bells for the _Sun’s
Wedding_. This Fancy looks toward the Case of a _Republican Humour_ that
has got a Head in a _Monarchical State_. Now _Empire_ is not to be shar’d
in _Consort_; and when _Sovereignty Marries_, ’tis no longer _Single_ but
_Popular_; and still the Greater the Number of Governors, the Heavier is
the Weight of the Government. Now though the Order of Superiority and
Subjection be of Absolute Necessity for the good of Mankind, this does
not yet hinder it in many Respects, from being Grievous to those that
live under it; every common Man would be Free, and thinks himself wrong’d
if he be not so. Now this is for want of Understanding the True and
Natural Reason of the Matter; which is, that when One Government comes to
be Dissolv’d, the First thing to be done is to fall to Cutting of Throats
toward the setting up of Another.