So in these days, when we cannot by any effort drive out of our minds the notion of law, we cannot imagine the mind of one who had never known it, and who could not by any effort have conceived it.
Bagehot emphasizes the challenge of imagining a mindset completely devoid of the concept of law, which is fundamental to modern thought.
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He could have found the truth as a statesman just as he found it when a judge; but he never did find it.
No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.
They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.
If the above reasoning be sound, compulsory constituencies are necessary, voluntary constituencies destructive; the optional transferability of votes is not a salutary aid, but a ruinous innovation.
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