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For 'every one having his own' is the great object of government;

and the great object of trade is that every man should do his own

business. Not that there is much harm in a carpenter trying to be

a cobbler, or a cobbler transforming himself into a carpenter;

but great evil may arise from the cobbler leaving his last and

turning into a guardian or legislator, or when a single

individual is trainer, warrior, legislator, all in one. And this

evil is injustice, or every man doing another's business. I do

not say that as yet we are in a condition to arrive at a final

conclusion. For the definition which we believe to hold good in

states has still to be tested by the individual. Having read the

large letters we will now come back to the small. From the two

together a brilliant light may be struck out...