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But admitting democracy not to have that inevitable tendency to party tyranny which I suppose it to have, and admitting it to possess as much good in it when unmixed as I am sure it possesses when compounded with other forms; does monarchy, on its part, contain nothing at all to recommend it? I do not often quote Bolingbroke, nor have his works in general left any permanent impression on my mind. （しかし、民主主義には、私がそこに有ると思う党派的専制への必然的傾向がないことを認め、他の形式と組み合わされたとき有ると思われるのと同じくらいの善が混じり気のないときにもそこに有ると認めるにしても、君主制の側には、推奨すべきものが全く何もないのでしょうか。私はボーリングブロークをあまり引用しませんし、彼の著作全般が私の心に深く刻まれているわけでもありません） He is a presumptuous and a superficial writer. But he has one observation which in my opinion is not without depth and solidity. He says that he prefers a monarchy to other governments, because you can better ingraft any description of republic on a monarchy than anything of monarchy upon the republican forms. I think him perfectly in the right. The fact is so historically, and it agrees well with the speculatio...