No one, I think, can doubt that Lord Macaulay is right in saying that political causes would not alone have then provoked such a resistance to the sovereign unless propelled by religious theory.
Bagehot agrees with Lord Macaulay that political resistance was fueled by religious beliefs during a pivotal historical moment.
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The whole history of civilisation, is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
All savage religions are full of superstitions founded on luck.
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.
He had seen that LEISURE is the great need of early societies, and slaves only can give men leisure.
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