Walter Bagehot: “And if the old systems of thought are not true as systems, neither is…”

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And if the old systems of thought are not true as systems, neither is the new revolt from them to be trusted in its whole vigour.

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Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot asserts that both old and new systems of thought should be approached with caution.

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They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.

The power of free interchange of ideas being wanting, the ideas themselves were barren.

Nothing promotes intellect like intellectual discussion, and nothing promotes intellectual discussion so much as government by discussion.

But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.

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