The peaceful struggle for existence in societies ever growing more crowded and more complicated, must have for its concomitant an increase of the great nervous centres in mass, in complexity, in activity.
Bagehot discusses the complexities of societal existence and its impact on human development.
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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.
And again, in political matters, how quickly a leading statesman can change the tone of the community!
The work would be done so well that we should not want any one to look over or revise it.
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