Walter Bagehot: “Nothing promotes intellect like intellectual discussion, and nothing…”

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

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Walter Bagehot

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He emphasizes the importance of intellectual discussion in fostering intellect and governance.

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

He could have found the truth as a statesman just as he found it when a judge; but he never did find it.

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