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Perhaps these same considerations throw some light, too, on the further and still more interesting question why some few nations progress, and why the greater part do not.
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Walter Bagehot
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This quote explores the reasons behind the progress of certain nations compared to others.
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He had seen that LEISURE is the great need of early societies, and slaves only can give men leisure.
But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.
They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.
All savage religions are full of superstitions founded on luck.
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