Walter Bagehot: “It is by that programme, by a comparison of the programmes of…”

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It is by that programme, by a comparison of the programmes of different statesmen, that the world forms its judgment.

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Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot asserts that political judgments are formed through the comparison of different statesmen's programs.

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Walter Bagehot: “It is by that programme, by a comparison of the programmes of different statesmen, that the world forms its judgment.”