n all that he does and all that he says he
must first study his party. It is well with him for a time;--but
he has closed the door of his Elysium too rigidly. Those without
gradually become stronger than his friends within, and so he falls.

But may not the door be occasionally opened to an outsider, so that
the exterior force be diminished? We know how great is the pressure
of water; and how the peril of an overwhelming weight of it may be
removed by opening the way for a small current. There comes therefore
the Statesman who acknowledges to himself that he will be pregnable.
That, as a Statesman, he should have enemies is a matter of course.
Against moderate enemies he will hold his own. But when there comes
one immoderately forcible, violently inimical, then to that man he
will open his bosom. He will tempt into his camp with an offer of
high command any foe that may be worth his purchase. This too has
answered well; but there is a Nemesis. The loyalty of officers so
procured must be open to suspicion. The man who has said bitter
things against you will never sit at your feet in contented
submission, nor will your friend of old standing long endure to be
superseded by such converts.

All these dangers Sir Timothy had seen and studied, and for each of
them he had hoped to be able to provide an antidote. Love cannot do
all. Fear may do more. Fear acknowledges a superior. Love desires an
equal. Love is to be created by benefits done, and means gratitude,
which we all know to be weak. But hope, which refers itself to
benefits to come, is of all our feelings the strongest. And Sir
Timothy had parliamentary doctrines concealed in the depths of his
own bosom more important even than these. The Statesman who falls is
he who does much, and thus injures many. The Statesman who stands the
longest is he who does nothing and injures no one. He soon knew that
the work which he had taken in hand required all the art of a great
conjuror. He must be possessed of tricks so marvellous that not even
they who sat nearest to him might know how they were performed.

For the executive or legislative business of the country he cared
little. The one should be left in the hands of men who liked
work;--of the other there should be little, or, if possible, none.
But Parliament must be managed,--and his party. Of patriotism he
did not know the meaning;--few, perhaps, do, beyond a feeling that
they would like to lick the Russians, or to get the