Excerpt from Principles of Government, or Meditations in Exile The amiable and studious author of this treatise on the principles or government has explained, in his own modest manner, the objects he had in view in undertaking it, and the method he pursued throughout. The work, he says, is intended to be suggestive, not dogmatic; and he invites the political student to dis cuss with him a series of questions which present themselves for solution in the management of public affairs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.