American Austin

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    I ... observed the great beauty of American government to be, that the simple machines of representation, carried through all its parts, gives facility for a being moulded at will to fit with the knowledge of the age; that thus, although it should be imperfect in any or all of its parts, it bears within it a perfect principle the principle of improvement.

    Frances Wright (1795–1852)

    Time goes, you say? Ah, no!
    Alas, Time stays, we go.
    —Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921)