Amongst the writers on Government whose works my limited opportunities of study have enabled me to examine, I have not met with any who have treated systematically of Administrative Government as it ought to be exercised in a free state. Authors in abundance, from Aristotle to Hobbes, have written out theories of civil society; and it is not to be questioned that their writings must have had momentous political consequences, if it were only through the exercise and direction which they gave to men's thoughts.