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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.”
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Bagehot reflects on the discomfort that new ideas can cause in human nature.
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But all men heed great results, and a change of Government is a great result.
The United States could not have become monarchical, even if the Constitutional Convention had decreed it, even if the component States had ratified it.
They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.
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