If we remember the great reverence which used to be paid to nobility as such, we shall be surprised that the House of Lords as an assembly, has always been inferior; that it was always just as now, not the first, but the second of our assemblies.
Bagehot reflects on the historical reverence for nobility and the House of Lords' relative inferiority.
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