text:  Every man who desires to know the true theory of public morals and the actual causes which influence the rise and fall of thrones makes his volumes a study; every man who desires to learn how the most solemn and essential truths may not merely be adorned but invigorated by the richest colourings of imagination must labour to discover the secret of his composition; and every man who born in party desires to emancipate his mind from the egotism bitterness and barrenness of party or achieve the still nobler and more difficult task of turning its evils into good and of making it an instrument of triumph for the general cause of mankind must measure the merits and success of his enterprise by its similarity to the struggles the motives and the ultimate triumph of Edmund Burke