It is perfectly possible--it has happened and will happen again--that the Cabinet, being very powerful in the Commons, may inflict minor measures on the nation which the nation did not like, but which it did not understand enough to forbid.
Bagehot notes that a powerful Cabinet can impose unpopular measures on the public due to a lack of understanding.
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The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.
They say, We reject your Bill for this once or these twice, or even these thrice: but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it.
The whole history of civilisation, is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
All savage religions are full of superstitions founded on luck.
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