text:  Anarchy of anarchies very mob of very mobs whose internal strife is greater than your common enmity _ab extra_--what shall we believe? Which is your true doctrine? Where do you fasten your real charge? Amongst conflicting arguments which is it that you adopt? Amongst self-destroying purposes for which is it that you make your election? [28] The reader may suppose that Lord John Russell had no motive for wishing his motion to fail because (as he was truly admonished by Sir Robert Peel) that motion pledged him to nothing and was "an exercise in political fluxions on the problem of combining the _maximum_ of damage to his opponents with the _minimum_ of prospective engagement to himself