"Wherefore to draw toward some conclusion of this discourse,
let me inculcate the use, by selecting a few considerations out
of many. The regard had in this place to the empire of the world
appertains to a well-ordered commonwealth, more especially for
two reasons:
"1. The facility of this great enterprise, by a government of
the model proposed;
"2. The danger that you would run in the omission of such a
government.
"The facility of this enterprise, upon the grounds already
laid, must needs be great, forasmuch as the empire of the world
has been, both in reason and experience, the necessary
consequence of a commonwealth of this nature only; for though it
has been given to all kinds to drive at it, since that of Athens
or Lacedaemon, if the one had not hung in the other's light,
might have gained it, yet could neither of them have held it; not
Athens, through the manner of her propagation, which, being by
downright tyranny, could not preserve what she had, nor
Lacedaemon, because she was overthrown by the weight of a less
conquest. The facility then of this great enterprise being
peculiar to popular government, I shall consider it, first, in
gaining, and secondly, in holding.
"For the former, volenti non fit injuria. It is said of the
people under Eumenes, that they would not have changed them no
their subjection for liberty; wherefore the Romans gave
disturbance.
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