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I am really sorry to see my Countrymen trouble themselves about Politics. If Men were Wise, the Most arbitrary Princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the Freest Government is compell'd to be a Tyranny. Princes appear to me to be Fools. Houses of Commons & Houses of Lords appear to me to be folly; they seem to me to be something Else besides Human Life.

----- William Blake, Collected Works ed. by G. Keynes,(Oxford U. P.1966) p. 600.

(Posted by phonophor.)