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· Obedience to a distant monarch is liberty itself, compared with the dominion of the lord of the neighboring castle... In this manner a central power, despotic in principle though generally much restricted in practice, was mainly instrumental in carrying the people through a necessary stage of improvement, which representative government, if real, would most likely have prevented them from entering upon.
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