text:  Attached as I am in the highest degree to the principle of monarchy and regarding it as the safest anchorage of the state still how was I to know that moral nature might not have her reserves of power as well as physical; that the science of government itself might not have its undetected secrets as well as the caverns of the earth; that the quiverings and convulsions of society at this moment obviously alike beyond calculation and control might not be only evidences of the same vast agencies at work whose counterparts in depths below the human eye shake and rend the soil? Those were the days of speculation and I indulged in them like the rest of the world