text:  In the first place they govern us through the tolerance of public opinion as men having station power property much to lose and little comparatively to gain--men who have put in bail to a large amount for their good behaviour: and in the second place they govern us because really and truly there are so many outrageously discordant political quacks desirous of taking our case in hand that we find it our interest to entrust our public health to an accomplished physician even although he charges a guinea a visit and refuses to insure a perfect cure with a box of pills costing thirteenpence-halfpenny