Walter Bagehot: “The small grain of foundation for complaint germinates, till it becomes a whole crop.”

They say, We reject your Bill for this once or these twice, or even these thrice: but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it.

We have thus a whole group of ancient republics of non-Aryan race, and one which, being more ancient than the classical republics, could not have borrowed from or imitated them.

Now it is not conceivable that a race of beings with valuable instincts supporting their existence and supplying their wants would need these simple tools.

The whole history of civilisation, is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.