Show S POLITICAL BREVITIES Little popular and little deserving to be popular nowadays as are priestly hierarchies most probably the beginnings begin-nings of science were made in such and for ages transmitted in such I Xenophon Plato and Aristotle all agree that Man is the hardest of all animals to govern i How to get the obedience of men is the hard problem In early ages this identity not union but sameness of what we call Church and State did much towards to-wards gaining this obedience rDr Arnold fresh from the study ot Greekthought and Roman history used to preach l U that this identity was the great vmu ivn mo liunKuiuuu juiuueni worm But though the teaching was wrong for the modern age to which it was applied it was excellent for the old world from which it was learned See i clause 4th PI 1 Dem Club1V M Bagehot S a < rliero i a great story of some African chief who expressed his disgust at adhering ad-hering to one wife by saying it was like S the monkeys The semibrutal I ancestors of man i they existed had very likely an instinct of constancy con-stancy which the African chief and others like him had lostW M Bagehot The Nation in speaking of waiter 11 Bagehot says There has beenno such J profound insight since the prfound insigh time of tme Burke But no religious test shall ever b required re-quired as a qualification to office qualficaton any or public trust under the United States R Art Constitution of the U S See I clause 9 of Platform of Democratic Club I A politician is a philosopher in ac tionBurke BO The best politician is the most M polician practical practi-cal idealist1 J H Wigmore I think every one according to the way Providence has placed him in is bound to labor for the public good so far as he is ableLocke The man who expending his energies Li I wholly on private affairs refuses to take LiH trouble about public affairs pluming himself him-self on his wisdom in minding his own H business is blind to the fact that his own Ti business is made possible only by main Sho T tenance of a healthy social state and tee that he loses all around by defective St v governmental gov-ernmental arrangements The Data of IE Ethics Herbert Spencer S |