Walter Bagehot: “But if once created they are most difficult to eradicate.”

There is no ELASTIC element, everything is rigid, specified, dated.

Carlyle has taught the present generation many lessons, and one of these is that 'God-fearing' armies are the best armies.

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

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.