It is a form of Government which has been tried often enough in the world, and it is easy to show what, human nature being what it in the long run is, the defects of a bureaucracy must in the long run be.
Bagehot reflects on the historical trials of bureaucratic governance and its inevitable shortcomings due to human nature.
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