Walter Bagehot: “This is, I think, the very process by which new national characters…”

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This is, I think, the very process by which new national characters are being made in our own time.

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Walter Bagehot

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He asserts that the formation of new national characters is an ongoing process influenced by current societal dynamics.

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Walter Bagehot: “This is, I think, the very process by which new national characters are being made in our own time.”