Exactly also like a shrewd far-sightedness, a sound morality on elementary transactions is far too useful a gift to the human race ever to have been thoroughly lost when they had once attained it.
Bagehot emphasizes the enduring value of sound morality in human interactions and transactions.
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And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.
Carlyle has taught the present generation many lessons, and one of these is that 'God-fearing' armies are the best armies.
But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.
That a House of Commons may work well it must perform, as we saw, five functions well: it must elect a Ministry well, legislate well, teach the nation well, express the nation's will well, bring matters to the nation's attention well.
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