Question

HELP PLEASE turn this sentence into modern English. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience have shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Answer 1

Wisdom, indeed, will give orders that long-established governments should not be changed for light and short-lived causes; and, accordingly, all experience has shown that mankind is more inclined to suffer evils, although they are tolerable than to right themselves by doing away with the customs that they are used to.