if its authority was small and its character temperate, it would not resort to violence till the last extremity, and it would connive at a number of partial acts of insubordination, in which case the State would gradually fall into anarchy;
ahul eta neurritsu izanez gero, ezinbestean bakarrik erabiliko luke indarra eta desobedientzia partzial asko utziko lituzke oharkabean pasatzen; horrela poliki-poliki anarkian jausiko litzateke Estatua.