Excerpt from The Tocsin of Britannia: With a Novel Plan for a Constitutional Army By moral union, I mean the qualities of thought and reflection pervading a very con fiderable mafs of the community, by which they are enabled to take a comprehenfive view of their political confiitution, to judge of it, not: as a perfect immutable fyftem, but as an ex periment of policy adapted to the prefent' predicament of things, effecting not pofitive good, but fubftituting leifer to greater evil; and fo difpofed as to tend towards perfeetability with a gradation fuitable to the improving progrefs of human intellect and the mutability of nature. 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.