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But the action of a single will, the fiat of a single mind, are easy ideas: anybody can make them out, and no one can ever forget them.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “But the action of a single will, the fiat of a single mind, are easy ideas: anybody can make them out, and no one can…”
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Bagehot contrasts the simplicity of individual authority with the complexities of collective governance.
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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.
But all men heed great results, and a change of Government is a great result.
The power of free interchange of ideas being wanting, the ideas themselves were barren.
They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.
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