The inference is, that the authority of the Union, and the affections of the citizens towards it, will be strengthened, rather than weakened, by its extension to what are called matters of internal concern; and will have less occasion to
recur to force, in proportion to the familiarity and comprehensiveness of its agency.
Finding it unnecessary to plead for the Tullivers, it was natural that aunt Pullet should relax a little in her anxiety for them, and
recur to the annoyance she had suffered yesterday from the offspring of that apparently ill-fated house.
Yet there was one thing on his mind to be done before he could
recur to remonstrance: it was to confess what had been unjust in his own words.
Though his religious temper led him in the end to accept every suffering with resignation and to regard it as a blessing in his own case, he constantly
recurs to the subject in his writings.