Entails and Primogeniture [pp. 172-178]

ENTAILS AND PRIMOGENITUIRE.
and no penalties of bodily suffering to enforce its decisions,
he would not, and could not, be removed from the scene of
his ill-conduct —conduct ruinous to the public peace, as it certainly is.
From this we infer that the philosophy of the social state,
or the principles of justice and morality, are, of themselves or
without the aid of civil rule, inadequate to produce the public
welfare. But take the philosophy of the social state, the
principles of justice and morality, the rights of man in the
social state, as the first cause of human prosperity in time,
and then take civil government, with its pains of body and
deprivations of temporal pleasure, as the second reason in
time, and let the two work together; let them be co-efficient;
let them be conjoint agencies or causes, and then the consequence will be happiness and prosperity in the social state.
But there are yet further agencies or causes in the rear of
both moral philosophy and civil government. Moral philosophy
is not without a cause, nor is civil government.
In the absence of the two causes that produced ethical
rules and civil rules, it would be wrong to go to the work of
assigning the relative importance and value of their results in
the production of public prosperity and happiness in the social
state. For example, let us suppose that the Supreme Cause,
or God, is the origin of moral philosophy, and certain distinguished civilians the origin of any given civil government —say, for example, that of our own country. Now, I say, it
would be wrong to go to the work of assigning the comparative value and importance of the governmrents, or civil rule,
among the people of the United States, in respect to the public
prosperity and happiness they have produced, and leave out
of consideration the great, good, and distinguished men who
were the leading agents in its organization.
(The conclusion in our next.)
AlIT. \lI.-EKTAILS ANDI PIIMIOGENITURE.
ExcEss of trade, occasioned by want of fixedness and permanency of property, is the cause of the frequent panics and
revulsions which afflict great part of modern society. In
looking at the area of the great revulsion in trade of 1S57,
we find it swept like a destructive tornado over all trading
communities, and was only arrested as it came in contact
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