Walter Bagehot: “A deferential community in which the bulk of the people are ignorant, is therefore in a state of what is called in…”

These anomalies, in a hundred instances, mark the old boundaries of a constitutional struggle.

Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner.

Political philosophy is still more imperfect; it has been framed from observations taken upon regular specimens of politics and States; as to these its teaching is most valuable.

It is natural that those who by special and admirable culture have come to look at all things upon the artistic side, should start back from these queer peculiarities.