Walter Bagehot: “At first sight it seems impossible to imagine what conceivable function such awful religions can perform in the economy…”

Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.

The nation then selected the English policy, but the Crown chose the English Ministers.

Nothing promotes intellect like intellectual discussion, and nothing promotes intellectual discussion so much as government by discussion.

But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.