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The future of this country depends on the happy working of a delicate experiment, and they will have done all they could to vitiate that experiment.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “The future of this country depends on the happy working of a delicate experiment, and they will have done all they could…”
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Bagehot warns that the success of the political system hinges on the careful management of a complex experiment.
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