Walter Bagehot: “It was 'government by discussion ', which broke the bond of ages and set free the originality of mankind.”

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.

But as soon as the House met, Lord Thurlow became the greatest.

They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.

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.