---- Mulier conjuncta viro concessit in unum, castaque privatae veneris connubia laeta cognita sunt, prolemque ex se videre coortam: TUM GENUS HUMANUM PRIMUM MOLLESCERE COEPIT. ---- puerisque parentum Blanditiis facile ingenium fregere superbum. _Tunc et amicitiam coeperunt jungere_ habentes Finitima inter se, nec laedere nec violare. Et pueros commendarunt muliebreque seclum Vocibus et gestu cum balbe significarent IMBECILLORUM ESSE AEQUUM MISERIER OMNIUM. _Lucret._ lib. v. 1. 1010-22. [21] The introduction to the first book of Aristotle's Politics is the best demonstration of the necessity of political society to the well-being, and indeed to the very being, of man, with which I am acquainted. Having shewn the circumstances which render man necessarily a social being, he justly concludes, "[Greek: Kai oti anthropos physei politikon zoon.]"--_Arist. de Rep._ lib. i. The same scheme of philosophy is admirably pursued in the short, but invaluable fragment of the sixth book of Polybius, which describes the history and revolutions of government. [22] To the weight of these great names let me add the opinion of two illustrious men of the present age, as both their opinions are combined by one of them in the following passage: "He (Mr. Fox) always thought any of the simple unbalanced governments bad; simple monarchy, simple aristocracy, simple democracy; he held them all imperfect or vicious, all were bad by themselves; the composition alone was good. These had been always his principles, in which he agreed with his friend, Mr. Burke."--_Mr. Fox on the Army Estimates_, 9th Feb. 1790. In speaking of both these illustrious men, whose names I here join, as they will be joined in fame by posterity, which will forget their temporary differences in the recollection of their genius and their friendship, I do not entertain the vain imagination that I can add to their glory by any thing that I can say. But it is a gratification to me to give utterance to my feelings; to express the profound veneration with which I am filled for the memory of the one, and the warm affection which I cherish for the other, whom no one ever heard in public without admiration, or knew in private life without loving. [23] _Privilege_, in Roman jurisprudence, means the _exemption_ of one individual from the operation of a law. Political privileges, in the sense in which I employ the terms, mean those rights of the subjects of a free state, which are deemed so essential to the well-being of the commonwealth, that they are _excepted_ from the ordinary discretion of the magistrate, and guarded by the same fundamental laws which secure his authority.