Of course on matters where particular interests
clashed with general interests, or were unable to adjust themselves to
other interests, the supreme Assembly would have to decide. The more
sectional interests are removed from discussion in the National
Assembly, and the more it confines itself to general interests the more
will it approximate to the ideal sense, be less the haunt of greed, and
more the vehicle of the national will and the national being.
By the application of the principle of representative government now in
force, one is reminded of nothing so much as the palette of an artist
who had squeezed out the primary colors and mixed them into a greasy
drab tint, where the purity of every color was lost, or the most
powerful pigment was in dull domination. If the modification of the
representative principle I have outlined was in operation, with each
interest or industry organized, and freed from alien interference, the
effect might be likened to a disc with the seven primary colors raying
from a centre, and made to whirl where the motion produced rather the
effect of pure light.
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