How painful is the conclusion that it is dubious whether all the machines and inventions of mankind 'have yet lightened the day's labour of a human being.' They have enabled more people to exist, but these people work just as hard and are just as mean and miserable as the elder and the fewer.
Bagehot questions the effectiveness of machines and inventions in improving human labor conditions.
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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.
Thirdly, we see why so few nations have made rapid advance, and how many have become stationary.
The nation then selected the English policy, but the Crown chose the English Ministers.
It is absurd to choose by contested party election an impartial chooser of Ministers.
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