He assured
them that nothing could be more agreeable to him than the prospect
of having such fellow-travellers; and they immediately appointed
a day for setting out on that tour.
CHAPTER XLIII.
He introduces his new Friends to Mr. Jolter, with whom the Doctor
enters into a Dispute upon Government, which had well nigh terminated
in open War.
Meanwhile, he not only made them acquainted with everything worth
seeing in town but attended them in their excursions to all the
king's houses within a day's journey of Paris; and in the course
of these parties, treated them with an elegant dinner at his own
apartments, where a dispute arose between the doctor and Mr. Jolter,
which had well nigh terminated in an irreconcilable animosity. These
gentlemen, with an equal share of pride, pedantry, and saturnine
disposition, were, by the accidents of education and company,
diametrically opposite in political maxims; the one, as we have
already observed, being a bigoted high-churchman, and the other a
rank republican. It was an article of the governor's creed, that
the people could not be happy, nor the earth yield its fruits
in abundance, under a restricted clergy and limited government;
whereas, in the doctor's opinion, it was an eternal truth, that no
constitution was so perfect as the democracy, and that no country
could flourish but under the administration of the mob.
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