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I shall answer you in a parable which will also let you see how

poor a hand I am at the invention of allegories. The relation of

good men to their governments is so peculiar, that in order to

defend them I must take an illustration from the world of

fiction. Conceive the captain of a ship, taller by a head and

shoulders than any of the crew, yet a little deaf, a little

blind, and rather ignorant of the seaman's art. The sailors want

to steer, although they know nothing of the art; and they have a

theory that it cannot be learned. If the helm is refused them,

they drug the captain's posset, bind him hand and foot, and take

possession of the ship. He who joins in the mutiny is termed a

good pilot and what not; they have no conception that the true

pilot must observe the winds and the stars, and must be their

master, whether they like it or not;-such an one would be called

by them fool, prater, star-gazer.