CHAPTER V.
GOVERNMENT.
106. It remains for us, as I stated in the close of the last chapter, to examine first the principles of government in general, and then those of the government of the Poor by the Rich.
The government of a state consists in its customs, laws, and councils, and their enforcements.
I. Customs.
As one person primarily differs from another by fineness of nature, and, secondarily, by fineness of training, so also, a polite nation differs from a savage one, first, by the refinement of its nature, and secondly by the delicacy of its customs.
In the completeness of custom, which is the nation's self-government, there are three
