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The grave question now is, How far will this peculiar old system continue and how far will it be altered?
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “The grave question now is, How far will this peculiar old system continue and how far will it be altered?”
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Bagehot raises a critical question about the future of the old electoral system and its potential changes.
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The whole history of civilisation, is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.
Thirdly, we see why so few nations have made rapid advance, and how many have become stationary.
They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.
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