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He will be an incompetent speaker addressing a hostile audience.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “He will be an incompetent speaker addressing a hostile audience.”
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Bagehot comments on the challenges of speaking effectively to an unsupportive audience.
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In early society, originality in life was forbidden and repressed by the fixed rule of life.
Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.
They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.
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.
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