A more complete imagination than Philip's might have pictured
a youth of splendid hope, for he must have been entering upon manhood in 1848
when kings, remembering their brother of France, went about with an uneasy
crick in their necks; and perhaps that passion for liberty which passed through
Europe, sweeping before it what of absolutism and tyranny had reared its head
during the reaction from the revolution of 1789, filled no breast with a hotter
fire.
"My children," said the Oldest and Wisest Ape in
the entire World, when he had heard the Deputation, "you did right in
ridding yourselves of tyranny, but your tribe is not sufficiently advanced to
dispense with the forms of monarchy. To those new states whom we welcome to the
ranks of the free: we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall
not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny.
