Walter Bagehot: “Society is not then formed upon a 'voluntary system' but upon an involuntary.”

I do not think I put this too high when I say that a most important if not the most important object of early legislation was the enforcement of LUCKY rites.

Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.

But, above all things, they were frightened of 'the world;' the spectacle of nature filled them with awe and dread.

The progress of the military art is the most conspicuous, I was about to say the most SHOWY, fact in human history.