Freedom engenders private animosities, but despotism gives birth to general indifference.
Amidst such violent animosities, power alone could insure safety; and the power of one side was necessarily attended with danger to the other.
An aristocracy seldom yields without a protracted struggle, in the course of which implacable animosities are kindled between the different classes of society.
We may cherish animosities, we may declare imperishable distances, we may plot and counter-plot, make war and "fight to a finish;" the net tightens for all that.