Each has a distinct end which he wishes and a distinct calamity which he fears, but the desire of the one is pretty near the fear of the other; books would not hold the controversy between them.
Bagehot discusses the conflicting desires and fears of individuals, suggesting that their goals often overlap in complex ways.
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They are above corruption because they are the corruptors.
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.
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.
They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.
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