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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (27981)	1/11/1999 9:37:00 PM
From: jpmac	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

One of my favorite reads. I particularly like the part where he warns of the danger posed by partys. A danger we are seeing in action now, as we have before, with our bloodless civil war.

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (27981)	1/11/1999 11:12:00 PM
From: jpmac	Respond to of 108807

An overlapping thought from Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist, No.1: So numerous indeed and so powerful are the causes, which serve to give a false bias to the judgement, that we, upon many occasions, see wise and good men on the wrong as well as on the right side of questions, of the first magnitude to society. This circumstance, if duly attended to, would furnish a lesson of moderation to those, who are ever so persuaded of their being in the right, in any controversy. And a further reason for caution, in this respect, might be drawn from the reflection, that we are not always sure, that those who advocate the truth are influenced by purer principles than their antagonists. Ambition, avarice, personal animosity, party opposition, and many other motives, not more laudable than these, are apt to operate as well upon those who support, as upon those who oppose the right side of a question. Were there not even these inducements to moderation, nothing could be more ill-judged than that intolerant spirit, which has, at all times, characterized political parties. For in politics as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.