Let us continue with Federalist Paper #1 written by Alexander Hamilton under the pen name Publius.

Please reply with your thoughts, disagreements, questions, and comments. We will have one week to deliberate before moving to the 3rd paragraph.

As we are now well aware, the writing is antiquated, so we will continue with only one paragraph. This section is also more wordy than most sentences and paragraphs within modern news articles (these newspaper essays were published between 1787 and 1788), so I will again insert a blank line between each sentence to ease readability.

"This idea will add the inducements of philanthropy to those of patriotism, to heighten the solicitude which all considerate and good men must feel for the event.

Happy will it be if our choice should be directed by a judicious estimate of our true interests, unperplexed and unbiased by considerations not connected with the public good.

But this is a thing more ardently to be wished than seriously to be expected.

The plan offered to our deliberations affects too many particular interests, innovates upon too many local institutions, not to involve in its discussion a variety of objects foreign to its merits, and of views, passions and prejudices little favorable to the discovery of truth." ~ Alexander Hamilton (pseudonym Publius), guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/text-1-10

(Entire document in link above, should you wish to refresh your memory, or read ahead. Nevertheless, this week we are conversing about the 2nd paragraph, albeit in context with the 1st.)

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