Walter Bagehot: “Vox populi will be Vox diaboli if it is worked in that manner.”

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Vox populi will be Vox diaboli if it is worked in that manner.

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Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot expresses concern that public opinion can become dangerously misguided if not properly guided.

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And again, in political matters, how quickly a leading statesman can change the tone of the community!

All savage religions are full of superstitions founded on luck.

He could have found the truth as a statesman just as he found it when a judge; but he never did find it.

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

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