On the record
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.
Said by
Walter Bagehot
Source
gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “I do not think I put this too high when I say that a most important if not the most important object of early…”
Editor's note · Context
He argues that early legislation was significantly focused on enforcing rituals associated with luck.
Share
More from Walter Bagehot
There is no ELASTIC element, everything is rigid, specified, dated.
We have thus a whole group of ancient republics of non-Aryan race, and one which, being more ancient than the classical republics, could not have borrowed from or imitated them.
The progress of the military art is the most conspicuous, I was about to say the most SHOWY, fact in human history.
In early society, originality in life was forbidden and repressed by the fixed rule of life.
Other voices in this conversation
