BOOK III PART II
ers. Political society easily remedies both these
inconveniences. Magistrates find an immedi-
ate interest in the interest of any considerable
part of their subjects. They need consult no
body but themselves to form any scheme for
the promoting of that interest. And as the fail-
ure of any one piece in the execution is con-
nected, though not immediately, with the fail-
ure of the whole, they prevent that failure, be-
cause they find no interest in it, either immedi-
ate or remote. Thus bridges are built; harbours
opened; ramparts raised; canals formed; fleets
equiped; and armies disciplined every where,
by the care of government, which, though com-
posed of men subject to all human infirmities,
becomes, by one of the finest and most subtle
inventions imaginable, a composition, which
is, in some measure, exempted from all these
infirmities.