Walter Bagehot: “Whatever may be said against the principle of 'natural selection' in other departments, there is no doubt of its…”

These anomalies, in a hundred instances, mark the old boundaries of a constitutional struggle.

I cannot, therefore, join in the full cry against anomalies; in my judgment it may quickly overrun the scent, and so miss what we should be glad to find.

Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner.

The lessons are good where its primitive assumptions hold, but may be false where those assumptions fail.