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Having carefully considered the subject of the above discourses,

and wondering within myself whether the present times were

propitious to a new prince, and whether there were elements that

would give an opportunity to a wise and virtuous one to introduce

a new order of things which would do honour to him and good to

the people of this country, it appears to me that so many things

concur to favour a new prince that I never knew a time more fit

than the present.