Walter Bagehot: “Man, being the strongest of all animals, differs from the rest; he was obliged to be his own domesticator; he had to…”

If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.

And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.

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.

Thirdly, we see why so few nations have made rapid advance, and how many have become stationary.