Constitutional government, especially in a small country, takes a great deal of time, and causes sight to be lost of the questions, which lone can secure to the country a political future. I have many a time that I saw you feeling more and more interest therein, and I am very anxious that it should be so, for it is time to be seriously occupied with those questions; otherwise Belgium will find herself at the tail of all other countries. I have heard that an association of German princes is actively occupied in an attempt at colonization in Texas…

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Constitutional government, especially in a small country, takes a great deal of time, and causes sight to be lost of the questions, which lone can secure to the country a political future. I have many a time that I saw you feeling more and more interest therein, and I am very anxious that it should be so, for it is time to be seriously occupied with those questions; otherwise Belgium will find herself at the tail of all other countries. I have heard that an association of German princes is actively occupied in an attempt at colonization in Texas…" in the context of "Early Belgian colonial Efforts: The long and fateful shadow of Leopold I, Page 109 Leopold to General Goblet, 27 February 1844 in Théodore Juste, Memoirs of Leopold I, King of the Belgians, from unpublished documents Translated by Robert Black. (London: Sampson Low, Son & Martson, 1868), 211." to mean that wisdom is timeless.