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Here then is an infallible criterion, by which the nation may judge of the intentions of those who govern it … if they corrupt the morals of the people, spread a taste for luxury, effeminacy, a rage for licentious pleasures, – if they stimulate the higher orders to a ruinous pomp and extravagance, – beware, citizens! beware of those corruptors! they only aim at purchasing slaves in order to exercise over them an arbitrary sway.
