Nature does not wear her most useful lessons on her sleeve; she only yields her most productive secrets, those which yield the most wealth and the most 'fruit,' to those who have gone through a long process of preliminary abstraction.
Bagehot suggests that nature's lessons are not immediately obvious and require deep understanding to uncover.
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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.
And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.
Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.
They are solely concerned with his attractiveness as a candidate; they need not regard his efficiency as a ruler.
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