If human nature was to be gradually improved, each generation must be born better tamed, more calm, more capable of civilisation--in a word, more LEGAL than the one before it, and such inherited improvements are always slow and dubious.
Bagehot discusses the slow and uncertain nature of human improvement across generations.
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