text:  We see in the formation of individual character a preparative and sometimes a most distinct and powerful one for the duty which the coming crisis is yet to demand; and why shall not legislatures as well individuals be placed in that condition of effectiveness and trained to that exertion of power which is subsequently to be required for the providential deliverance of nations? It is remarkable that the discussions in which parliament at this period was engaged though local and of course altogether inferior to those comprehensive struggles which were to follow were yet of a nature singularly calculated to call forth practical ability