Louis Philippe, Victor Emmanuel, and Leopold are the founders of their dynasties; we must not reckon in constitutional monarchy any more than in despotic monarchy on the permanence in the descendants of the peculiar genius which founded the race.
Bagehot notes that the founders of dynasties cannot guarantee the same qualities in their descendants.
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