Perhaps every young Englishman who comes now-a-days to Aristotle or Plato is struck with their conservatism: fresh from the liberal doctrines of the present age, he wonders at finding in those recognised teachers so much contrary teaching.
Bagehot comments on the contrast between modern liberal ideas and the conservatism of ancient philosophers.
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Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.
But, above all things, they were frightened of 'the world;' the spectacle of nature filled them with awe and dread.
They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.
Nothing promotes intellect like intellectual discussion, and nothing promotes intellectual discussion so much as government by discussion.
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