The question relating to a Scots militia considered. In a letter to the lords and gentlemen who have concerted the form of a law for that establishment
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Abstract
mote though independent freeholder reach the ears of his hrethren, who are now full of expedation from your well-judged and public- fpirited mealures.Of all the wonders that have been perform- ed by the prefent adminiftration, the eflabliih- ment of a national militia, though not the mofl: (hining, is far the greateft, whether we confider the obftacles that were to be removed, or the conlequences that mufl: follow.When the battles of Minden, Quebec, and Belleifle fliall only ferve to adorn the page of the hifto- rian, the militia will continue, to give liberty, ftrength, and fecurity to Great Britain ; and the reign of George II.will thence derive a glory, that in future times will appear fuperior to the greateft increafe of dominion, or of trade.Improvements in policy, it is true, feldom arife but from preffing occafions ; and the zeal of the vvifeft patriots is found unable to produce remarkable changes, except when it a(fts in relief of fome real complaint.Happy is that nation where the minifters are capable of taking advantage of fuch neceffities to form lafling and national inftitutions, inftead of patching up the flate with temporary and felf- idi expedients.The internal defedt which was fo plainly pointed out by our loiTes and alarms in the beginning of the prefent war, and which gave occafion occafion to the change of policy I now fpealc of, was not unknown to the friends of liberty in the former age.Ever fince the happy revolution, men have not been avvanting, who have Ihown us the inlufiiciency, and warned us of the danger, oftrulting entirely to landing armies.The truly Britiih fpirit of our fol- diers, no lefs than the moderation of our princes, has hitherto fecured us from that danger J bitter expence has more than once taught us the infufficiency of fuch a force.It is wife to learn even from an enemy.The French, taught by our example, ever fince the days of the great Colbert, have been extending their commerce.They faw that iheir natural firength and military power alone could not maintain their equality with Britain; and therefore they endeavoured to derive an artificial llrcngth from trading colonics and a powerful m.arine." is any real fecuritv to the liberties of the ** people, but that which puts the fvvord in '* their own hand.The power of granting " and refufing monev, though vefled in the " fubjeft, is not fufficient where a ftanding " army is kept up in time of peace ; for he " that is armed is always mafler of the purfe " of him that is unarmed. 1 he polTciTion of *' arms," continues that great patriot, '* is ** the diflindlion of a freeman from a Have. *'He who has nothing, and belongs to an-" other, muft be defended by him, and needs " no arms: but he who thinks he is his own ** mafter, and has any thing he may call his " own, ought to have arms to defend him-" felf, and what he podeiTes, or clfe he lives '' precarioufly and at difcretion."True dif- tin(5tion ! which will obtain while there are freemen
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".