Walter Bagehot: “They will admit it in theory, but in practice the old error--the error which arrested a hundred civilisations--returns…”

He gave an excellent moral example to his contemporaries, but he is an instance of those whose good dies with them, while their evil lives after them.

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

But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.

The progress of the military art is the most conspicuous, I was about to say the most SHOWY, fact in human history.