A Parliamentary Minister is a man trained by elaborate practice not to blurt out crude things, and an English Parliament is an assembly which particularly dislikes anything gauche or anything imprudent.
Bagehot describes the careful training of Parliamentary Ministers to communicate effectively and avoid imprudence.
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
The whole history of civilisation, is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
Now it is not conceivable that a race of beings with valuable instincts supporting their existence and supplying their wants would need these simple tools.
If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.
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