Walter Bagehot: “They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.”

In early society, originality in life was forbidden and repressed by the fixed rule of life.

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.

If the above reasoning be sound, compulsory constituencies are necessary, voluntary constituencies destructive; the optional transferability of votes is not a salutary aid, but a ruinous innovation.

The work would be done so well that we should not want any one to look over or revise it.