Walter Bagehot: “The best test of a machine is the work it turns out.”

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.

The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.

There is no ELASTIC element, everything is rigid, specified, dated.

Nothing promotes intellect like intellectual discussion, and nothing promotes intellectual discussion so much as government by discussion.