Walter Bagehot: “We are dealing with people capable of history when we speak of great ideas, not with prehistoric flint-men or the…”

I own that I do not entirely sympathise with the horror of these anomalies which haunts some of our best critics.

The lessons are good where its primitive assumptions hold, but may be false where those assumptions fail.

These anomalies, in a hundred instances, mark the old boundaries of a constitutional struggle.

But it is natural also that persons used to analyse political institutions should look at these anomalies with a little tenderness and a little interest.