Just now, the triumph of the Prussians--the bureaucratic people, as is believed, par excellence--has excited a kind of admiration for bureaucracy, which a few years since we should have thought impossible.
Bagehot comments on the unexpected admiration for Prussian bureaucracy following their military successes.
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