Walter Bagehot: “It lets forth a dangerous accumulation of inhibited power, which might sweep this Constitution before it, as like…”

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

They are above corruption because they are the corruptors.

Now it is not conceivable that a race of beings with valuable instincts supporting their existence and supplying their wants would need these simple tools.

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.