The elements which excite the most easy reverence will be the THEATRICAL elements--those which appeal to the senses, which claim to be embodiments of the greatest human ideas, which boast in some cases of far more than human origin.
Bagehot explains that the elements of government that garner reverence often appeal to the senses rather than practicality.
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Carlyle has taught the present generation many lessons, and one of these is that 'God-fearing' armies are the best armies.
Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.
He had seen that LEISURE is the great need of early societies, and slaves only can give men leisure.
The power of free interchange of ideas being wanting, the ideas themselves were barren.
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