Excerpt from The Miscellaneous Works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 2 of 3 The Spirit of Monarchy, then, is nothingr but the craving: in the human mind after the scll\ii)lc and the One. It is not 8 much a matter of state-necessity or policy, as a natural inlirmity, a disease, a false appetite in the popular feeling, which llltht be gratified. Man is an individual animal with narrow faculties, but infinite desirm, which he is anxious to concentrate in some one object within the grasp of his imagination, and where, if he cannot be all that he wishes himwlf, he may at least contem plate his own pride, vanity, and passions, displayed in their most extravagant dimensions in a being; no bigger and no better than himself Each individual would (a ere it in his power) be a king, a Hod but as he cannot, the next best thingr is to see this relh-x image of his self-love, the darling.)r of his breast. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.