The truth is, that a skilled bureaucracy--a bureaucracy trained from early life to its special avocation--is, though it boasts of an appearance of science, quite inconsistent with the true principles of the art of business.
Bagehot argues that a highly trained bureaucracy, despite its appearance of expertise, contradicts effective business principles.
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In early society, originality in life was forbidden and repressed by the fixed rule of life.
They are above corruption because they are the corruptors.
They say, We reject your Bill for this once or these twice, or even these thrice: but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it.
Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.
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