Walter Bagehot: “In ancient times city people could not be got to fight--seemingly could not fight; they lost their mental courage…”

They say, We reject your Bill for this once or these twice, or even these thrice: but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it.

The work would be done so well that we should not want any one to look over or revise it.

But, above all things, they were frightened of 'the world;' the spectacle of nature filled them with awe and dread.

I do not think I put this too high when I say that a most important if not the most important object of early legislation was the enforcement of LUCKY rites.