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Legislators Told How to Manage Men
Raynal’s instructions to the
legislators on how to manage people may be compared to a
professor of agriculture lecturing his students: "The
climate is the first rule for the farmer. His resources determine
his procedure. He must first consider his locality. If his soil
is clay, he must do so and so. If his soil is sand, he must act
in another manner. Every facility is open to the farmer who
wishes to clear and improve his soil. If he is skillful enough,
the manure at his disposal will suggest to him a plan of
operation. A professor can only vaguely trace this plan in
advance because it is necessarily subject to the instability of
all hypotheses; the problem has many forms, complications, and
circumstances that are difficult to foresee and settle in
detail."
Oh, sublime writers! Please remember sometimes that
this clay, this sand, and this manure which you so arbitrarily
dispose of, are men! They are your equals! They are intelligent
and free human beings like yourselves! As you have, they too have
received from God the faculty to observe, to plan ahead, to
think, and to judge for themselves!
Clark Simmons, Webmaster
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