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A friend reminded me that, back in 2000, I published (as a column in The Freeman) this heavily abridged version of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s 1830 essay “Southey’s Colloquies on Society [2].” I highly recommend that you read the entire essay [3], but – short of reading that remarkably eloquent essay in full – my humble, abridged version will do.