Walter Bagehot: “But one use they assuredly had: they fixed the yoke of custom thoroughly on mankind.”

Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.

He had seen that LEISURE is the great need of early societies, and slaves only can give men leisure.

If the above reasoning be sound, compulsory constituencies are necessary, voluntary constituencies destructive; the optional transferability of votes is not a salutary aid, but a ruinous innovation.

And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.