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Along with appropriate intellectual would thus but too probably be excluded the prime /choicest/ portion of appropriate moral aptitude. Youth it has been said and surely not altogether without reason is the season of virtue: {in particular of political virtue.} It is in that season that social affection receives /derives/ from imagination that force /stimulus/ which grows weaker and weaker in proportion as from habit /by exercise/ and unceasing attention and reflection self-regarding interest in all its branches grows /waxes/ stronger and stronger. Youth then is the season of virtue: in particular of political virtue: of social affection operating upon the most extensive scale, and with such strength as to maintain the mastery over the united force of /shut the ear[?] of the mind against the suggestion of/ self regarding interest and even social interest /affection/ operating /acting/ any less extensive scales /scale/.

The force of this maxim seems to have been felt and well understood by the framers of that clause in French Constitutional law, by which all persons /men/ under 40 years of age are excluded from {the House of Peers.}

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