And it is a great advantage, to say the least of it, in the evolution theory that it enables us to remit this difficulty to a pre-existing period in nature, where other instincts and powers than our present ones may perhaps have come into play, and where our imagination can hardly travel.
Bagehot highlights the advantage of evolutionary theory in addressing challenges of understanding human progress.
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Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.
The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.
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