Excerpt from Local Self-Government Un-Mystified: A Vindication of Common Sense, Human Nature, and Practical Improvement, Against the Manifesto of Centralism, Put Forth at the Social Science Association, 1857
The Manifesto of Centralism here noticed, was first published to the world in the columns of The Mac} on the 17th October, 1857. The first edition of the present work was published on the 7th November following. A large edition having already become exhausted, a few chiefly verbal revi sions have been made in this edition; and two Extracts, on the important point of certainty in the Law, have been added.
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