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Society as such has no more to do with civil polity than with ecclesiastical.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “Society as such has no more to do with civil polity than with ecclesiastical.”
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Bagehot claims that society operates independently of civil and ecclesiastical governance.
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