...connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices? 209 In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies...

...permanent enemies, only permanent interests. Washington argued that, in implementing our foreign policy, "nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate...antipathies against particular nations and passionate attachments for others should be excluded, and that in place of them just and amicable feelings toward...