Author, U: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 50

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Author, U: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 50

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Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 50: July December, 1841

Hypocrisy, says Rochafoncault, is the homage which vice pays to virtue. With equal, perhaps greater truth, it may be said, that falsehood is the homa e which revolution pays to order; an that the discovery of that falsehood, if made in time, constitutes at once the safeguard against its dan gers and the punishment of its oxees ses. Falsehood, from first to last, is its essential, never-failing principle of action. Bulwer was never more cor rect than when he said that lying, enormous lying, alone carried the Re form Bill. Dr Johnson long ago said, that the devil was the first Whig; and in nothing have the present lead era of the revolution more completely taken after their great ancestor, and in nothing are the features of the fa~ mily lineage more apparent, than in the incessant falsehoods which they perpetually put forward, and the delu sive hopes which they are continually exciting. It was fruit beauteous to the eye, and pleasant to the taste, which the serpent proffered to Eve; and not less inviting are the fruits which crafty Liberalism never fails, in every age, to ofi'er to unsuspecting innocence; but the nation, not less than the individual, which shall eat thereo shall surely die.

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