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SPHERE AND DUTIES OF GOVERNMENT.

THE

SPHERE AND DUTIES

OF

GOVERNMENT.

Translated from the German of

BARON WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT,

BY

JOSEPH COULTHARD, Jun.

"Le difficile est de ne promulguer que des lois nécessaires, de rester à jamais fideèe à ce principe vraiment constitutionnel de la société, de se mettre en garde contre la fureur de gouverner, la plus funeste maladie des gouvernemens modernes."—Mirabeau l'Aîné, sur l'Education Publique, p. 69.

LONDON:

JOHN CHAPMAN,

8, KING WILLIAM STEEET, STRAND.

MDCCCLIV.

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