nstitutions of Leaplow are divided into two great moral categories,
viz.: the LEGAL and the SUBSTITUTIVE. The former embraces the provisions
of the great ELEMENTARY, and the latter all the provisions of the
great ALIMENTARY principle. The first, accordingly, is limited by the
constitution, or the Great National Allegory, while the last is limited
by nothing but practice; one contains the proposition, and the other its
deductions; this is all hypothesis, that, all corollary. The two great
political landmarks, the two public opinions, the bob-upon-bobs,
the rotatory action, and the great and little wheels, are merely
inferential, and I shall, therefore, say nothing about them in my
present treatise, which has a strict relation only to the fundamental
law of the land, or to the Great and Sacred National Allegory.

It has been already stated that Leaplow was originally a scion of
Leaphigh. The political separation took place in the last generation,
when the Leaplowers publicly renounced Leaphigh and all it contained,
just as your catechumen is made to renounce the devil and all his works.
This renunciation, which is also sometimes called the DENUNCIATION, was
much more to the liking of Leaplow than to that of Leaphigh; and a long
and sanguinary war was the consequence. The Leaplowers, after a smart
struggle, however, prevailed in their firm determination to have no more
to do with Leaphigh. The sequel will show how far they were right.

Even preceding the struggle, so active was the sentiment of patriotism
and independence, that the citizens of Leaplow, though ill-provided
with the productions of their own industry, proudly resorted to the
self-denial of refusing to import even a pin from the mother country,
actually preferring nakedness to submission. They even solemnly voted
that their venerable progenitor, instead of being, as she clearly ought
to have been, a fond, protecting, and indulgent parent, was, in truth,
no other than a rapacious, vindictive and tyrannical step-mother. This
was the opinion, it will be remembered, when the two communities were
legally united, had but one head, wore clothes, and necessarily pursued
a multitude of their interests in common.

By the lucky termination of the war, all this was radically changed.
Leaplow pointed her thumb at Leaphigh, and declared her intention
henceforth to manage her own affairs in her own way. In order to do
this the more effectually, and, at the same time, to thr