Walter Bagehot: “And yet the chance knowledge of the marvellous effect of gifted springs is probably as ancient as any sound knowledge as…”

The work would be done so well that we should not want any one to look over or revise it.

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.

That a House of Commons may work well it must perform, as we saw, five functions well: it must elect a Ministry well, legislate well, teach the nation well, express the nation's will well, bring matters to the nation's attention well.

Thirdly, we see why so few nations have made rapid advance, and how many have become stationary.