Walter Bagehot: “Whatever may be said against the principle of 'natural selection' in other departments, there is no doubt of its…”

The nation then selected the English policy, but the Crown chose the English Ministers.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.

In early society, originality in life was forbidden and repressed by the fixed rule of life.