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363 BISE OF THE CONTINENTALallowed a simile, not perhaps sufficiently exalted, but yetmost applicable than the track in which the chariot wheelsare to run ? It certainlyis not a matter of indifference howthis track is formed, for if it be even and easy, the motionwill be so also if it be uneven and rough, the checks willbe more frequent, and some improvementswill be required.If it be wholly useless, it must be given up ; but be it everso good,are we thereby assured that the chariot will continue in the track ? Will the track alone be sufficient to restrain it ? This depends rather upon the steeds who draw,and the charioteer who guides.But to drop all metaphor no forms will benefit a state,unless the government and people be moral and enlightened.And as to devising any which shall contain the warrant ofits own stability,this would be even more absurd than toendeavour the discovery of a perpetuum mobile whichshould maintain its own impulse for ever.HISTORICALDEVELOPMENTOFTHE RISE AND GROWTHOFTHECONTINENTAL INTERESTS OF GREAT BRITAIN.THE political system of Europe is greatly and beneficiallymodified by containing within it an insular state, which byits extent, and the use to which it its applies domesticresources, maintains its rank among the leading powers.However great the resemblance which may exist amongstthe cultivated nations of Europe in points of civilization,religion, and language, the insular character of such a statenecessarily gives rise to certain peculiarities, which cannotbe effaced. The barriers which nature has interposed between it and the rest of the world, almost certainly producea feeling of independence among its inhabitants, which may