Weal

.—The common weal, the public weal, the general weal, so much regarded in Saxon antiquity, is now out of date, and sneered at by our legislators; insomuch, that if a man talks of the public weal, he is a visionary; and if he, by actions, strives to promote the general weal, he is a rebel, and a leveller; so changed are the times, so perverted is the reason of man, and so abject his submission to priests, and the “Powers that be!”