Walter Bagehot: “Both the courtiers of George III. and the courtiers of Queen Victoria are agreed as to the magnitude of the royal…”

But as soon as the House met, Lord Thurlow became the greatest.

The whole history of civilisation, is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

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.

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