Excerpt from Principles or Government, or Meditations in Exile, Vol. 1 of 2
This task has been brought to a conclusion during my residence in Belgium and it has been highly satisfactory to me to find, that many of the sugges tions which I brought forward as theoretical ideas, while writing at the Antipodes, have been beneficially realized in the actual administration of the public affairs of this country.
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