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And no one will contend that the ordinary working man who has no special skill, and who is only rated because he has a house, can judge much of intellectual matters.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot argues that ordinary working men, lacking special skills, are not equipped to judge intellectual matters.
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The lessons are good where its primitive assumptions hold, but may be false where those assumptions fail.
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