The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.

A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are one kind of people; 2. That they are the same as the people in the northeast of Asia.

But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.

In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.