Walter Bagehot: “The preponderant probability is that on a great occasion the Premier and Parliament will really be wiser than the king.”

But as soon as the House met, Lord Thurlow became the greatest.

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.

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

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.