Walter Bagehot: “Certain persons are by common consent agreed to be wiser than others, and their opinion is, by consent, to rank for much…”

I do not think I put this too high when I say that a most important if not the most important object of early legislation was the enforcement of LUCKY rites.

We have thus a whole group of ancient republics of non-Aryan race, and one which, being more ancient than the classical republics, could not have borrowed from or imitated them.

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.