Walter Bagehot: “But society is every day becoming less stately.”

All savage religions are full of superstitions founded on luck.

No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.

They say, We reject your Bill for this once or these twice, or even these thrice: but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it.

Now it is not conceivable that a race of beings with valuable instincts supporting their existence and supplying their wants would need these simple tools.