There is every reason to expect that a Parliamentary statesman will be a man of quite sufficient intelligence, quite enough various knowledge, quite enough miscellaneous experience, to represent effectually general sense in opposition to bureaucratic sense.
Bagehot asserts that a Parliamentary statesman should possess diverse intelligence and experience to counter bureaucratic tendencies.
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