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It is an admission too that there is no sacred authority--no one transcendent and divinely appointed man whom in that matter the community is bound to obey.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot claims that discussion implies the absence of a sacred authority in decision-making.
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And again, in political matters, how quickly a leading statesman can change the tone of the community!
The power of free interchange of ideas being wanting, the ideas themselves were barren.
But as soon as the House met, Lord Thurlow became the greatest.
He gave an excellent moral example to his contemporaries, but he is an instance of those whose good dies with them, while their evil lives after them.
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