Walter Bagehot: “But in fact such manners are the growth of ages, like Roman law or the British constitution.”

The whole history of civilisation, is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

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.

The progress of the military art is the most conspicuous, I was about to say the most SHOWY, fact in human history.

But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.