Walter Bagehot: “I have myself had a vote for an agricultural county for twenty years, and I am a Liberal; but two Tories have always…”

Now it is not conceivable that a race of beings with valuable instincts supporting their existence and supplying their wants would need these simple tools.

They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.

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.

He could have found the truth as a statesman just as he found it when a judge; but he never did find it.