In ages when distant territories are blanks in the mind, when neighbourhood is a sentiment, when locality is a passion, concerted co-operation between remote regions is impossible even on trivial matters.
Bagehot discusses the challenges of governance when regions are disconnected in understanding and sentiment.
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He could have found the truth as a statesman just as he found it when a judge; but he never did find it.
They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.
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.
The United States could not have become monarchical, even if the Constitutional Convention had decreed it, even if the component States had ratified it.
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