Walter Bagehot: “In a word, the superfluous energy of mankind has flowed over into philosophy, and has worked into big systems what…”

I do not think I put this too high when I say that a most important if not the most important object of early legislation was the enforcement of LUCKY rites.

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

Carlyle has taught the present generation many lessons, and one of these is that 'God-fearing' armies are the best armies.

We have thus a whole group of ancient republics of non-Aryan race, and one which, being more ancient than the classical republics, could not have borrowed from or imitated them.