Walter Bagehot: “Just so in most cases, all through the earliest times, martial merit…”

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Just so in most cases, all through the earliest times, martial merit is a token of real merit: the nation that wins is the nation that ought to win.

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Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot suggests that martial merit often reflects true merit, as the victorious nation is deemed deserving of its success.

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