Chapter XXVI: Part II: Julius Caesar;

OR,

THE EMPIRICAL TREATMENT IN DISEASES OF THE COMMON-WEAL EXPLAINED.

Good does not necessarily succeed evil; another evil may succeed, and a worse, as it happened with Caesar's killers, who brought the republic to such a pass that they had reason to repent their meddling with it.... It must be examined in what condition THE ASSAILANT is.--_Michael de Montaigne_.

_Citizen_. I fear there will a worse one come in his place.
_Cassius_. He were no lion, were not Romans hinds.