Walter Bagehot: “It is now-a-days its greatest good that it does so; the change is what…”

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It is now-a-days its greatest good that it does so; the change is what we call 'enlargement of mind'.

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Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot asserts that the greatest benefit of commerce today is its role in broadening perspectives.

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No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.

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

They are above corruption because they are the corruptors.

The power of free interchange of ideas being wanting, the ideas themselves were barren.

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Walter Bagehot: “It is now-a-days its greatest good that it does so; the change is what we call 'enlargement of mind'.”