If these savages did care to cultivate wheat, where is the wild wheat gone which their abandoned culture must have left? if they did give up using good domestic animals, what has become of the wild ones which would, according to all natural laws, have sprung up out of them?
Bagehot raises questions about the absence of wild wheat and domestic animals if savages once cultivated them.
Share
More from Walter Bagehot
He could have found the truth as a statesman just as he found it when a judge; but he never did find it.
They are solely concerned with his attractiveness as a candidate; they need not regard his efficiency as a ruler.
We have thus a whole group of ancient republics of non-Aryan race, and one which, being more ancient than the classical republics, could not have borrowed from or imitated them.
The progress of the military art is the most conspicuous, I was about to say the most SHOWY, fact in human history.
Other voices in this conversation
