The old statesman who governed England, at an age when most men are unfit to govern their own families, remembered a whole generation of states men who were dead before Prince Albert was born.
Bagehot comments on the vast experience of an old statesman compared to Prince Albert's relative youth.
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He could have found the truth as a statesman just as he found it when a judge; but he never did find it.
The power of free interchange of ideas being wanting, the ideas themselves were barren.
No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.
They are above corruption because they are the corruptors.
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