There were alien acts in former days, and to live abroad was illegal; and I
						have no doubt that the purpose of these regulations was to keep the citizens
						from being demoralized by contact with foreigners; and now I have no doubt
						that the fixed ambition of those who are thought to be first among them is
						to live to their dying day as governors in a foreign land. There was a time when they would fain be worthy of leadership; but now they
						strive far more earnestly to exercise rule than to be worthy of it.