text:  Nothing is so common as for trivial superficial men--the class to which the management of empires is for the most part entrusted--to ridicule theories and by a mode reasoning which would place any cabin boy far above Sir Isaac Newton to insist upon the mechanical parts of government and the routine of ordinary business as the sole objects entitled to notice and consideration-- "O curvae in terris animae et coelestium inanes!" [Footnote A: This does not apply to Louis XV