Methuen
treaty caused Englishmen to drink port instead of claret for a hundred
and fifty years, to the great increase of gout and drunkenness. The
statesman might well be appalled if he should realize that he probably
never can lay a tax without effects on industry, health, education,
morals, and religion which he cannot foresee and cannot control. In the
case of the cards, the consequence was favorable to good morals. That
consequence was the purest accident. The state went on its way and got
its revenue. The people met the effect through the mores and made the
best of it, just as they did with the effects of the Methuen treaty. The
cases are useful for a statesman to consider, when he needs to get
revenue and the question by what taxes to get it is yet in his mind and
_before_ him. When he has decided and acted it remains only to take the
consequences, for, through the mores, they will enter into the web of
life which the people are weaving and must endure. That web contains
all the follies and errors, just as well as all the wisdom and all the
achievements, of the past. The whole inheritance passes on together,
including all the luck.

[1380] Ammianus Marcellinus, XXVIII, 4.

[1381] Darmstetter, _Zend-Avesta_, I, 100.

[1382] Marsden, _Sumatra_, 52.

[1383] Curr, _Austr. Race_, I, 109.

[1384] _Borneo's Wester-Afdeeling_, 251.

[1385] JAI, XII, 94, 135.

[1386] Schultz, _D. L._, 283.

[1387] Sieroshevski, _Yakuty_ (_Polish_), 342.

[1388] Holm, _Angmagslikerne_, 54.

[1389] Fritsch, _Eingeb. Sued-Afr._, 444.

[1390] _Amer. Antiq._, XXIV, 77.

[1391] _Une Femme chez les Sahariennes._

[1392] Bancroft, _Races of the Pacific_, I, 123; II, 676.

[1393] Kubary, _Soc. Einricht. der Pelauer_, 51, 55, 91.

[1394] _Palau_, 65, 324.

[1395] Cf. Christian, _Caroline Isl._, 290.

[1396] JAI, XV, 8; _U. S. Nat. Mus._, 1888, 339.

[1397] Duveyrier, _Touaregs du Nord_, 340, 429.

[1398] Rubruck, _Eastern Parts_, 79, Rockhill's note.

[1399] Sprenger, _Geographie Arabiens_, 97.

[1400] Probably 31 deg. E. 13-1/2 deg. N.

[1401] Wilson and Felkin, _Uganda and Sudan_, II, 309.

[1402] _On Tranquil._, 17.

[1403] _Nich. Ethics._, IV, 9.

[1404] _Ethik_, 127.

[1405] _Umschau_, VI, 52, after Haeckel, _Aus Insulinde_.

[1406] Goodrich-Frear, _Inner Jerusalem_, 257.

[1407] _Il._, XIV, 179; cf. _Od._, XVI, 416; XVIII, 2