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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), entry 1598 (search)
l to a hearing ; and it still more shows the horror of all innovation which the recent events of French history had impressed on our wealthy and comfortable classes. They were afraid of catching revolution, as old women of catching cold. Sir Archibald Alison to this day holds that revolution is an infectious disease, beginning no one knows how, and going on no one knows where. There is but one rule of escape, explains the great historian: Stay still; don't move; do what you have been accustomnt which are praised. The greater part of our foreign admirers find our success to consist in the achievement of stable safeguards against hasty or retrogressive action; we are asked to believe that we have succeeded because we have taken Sir Archibald Alison's advice, and have resisted the infection of revolution by staying quite still. But, after all, progress is motion, government is action. The waters of democracy are useless in their reservoirs unless they may be used to drive the wh