Walter Bagehot: “To gain that obedience, the primary condition is the identity--not the union, but the sameness--of what we now call…”

If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.

But, above all things, they were frightened of 'the world;' the spectacle of nature filled them with awe and dread.

In early society, originality in life was forbidden and repressed by the fixed rule of life.

There is no ELASTIC element, everything is rigid, specified, dated.