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But despotism is unfavourable to the principle of variability, as all history shows.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “But despotism is unfavourable to the principle of variability, as all history shows.”
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Bagehot asserts that despotism hinders societal variability and progress, as evidenced by history.
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