Walter Bagehot: “For twenty years no great political reputation could arise in France.”

He had seen that LEISURE is the great need of early societies, and slaves only can give men leisure.

Now it is not conceivable that a race of beings with valuable instincts supporting their existence and supplying their wants would need these simple tools.

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.

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.