Here is a clear case of opposition—contrasting the reason for the failure of the French Revolution and the reason for the success of the American Revolution—and this important fact may be recorded in the mind by noting the absence of experience in the one instance and the presence of it in the other.
The political principles of Thomas Jefferson differ from those expounded by Alexander Hamilton. The former believed in a nation composed of sovereign states; while the latter favored a strong centralized government that should have general supervision over the states composing it.
—Lawrence.
No two men, living at the same period and in the same country, engaged in the same pursuits, and both working for the same object, the good of their country, ever differed to a greater extent in their physical, men-
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