Walter Bagehot: “The teaching function brings true ideas before the nation, and is the function of its highest minds.”

The power of free interchange of ideas being wanting, the ideas themselves were barren.

The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.

All savage religions are full of superstitions founded on luck.

I do not think I put this too high when I say that a most important if not the most important object of early legislation was the enforcement of LUCKY rites.