No division of power is then endurable without danger--probably without destruction; the priest must not teach one thing and the king another; king must be priest, and prophet king: the two must say the same, because they are the same.
Bagehot warns against the dangers of a divided power between religious and political authorities.
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They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.
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He could have found the truth as a statesman just as he found it when a judge; but he never did find it.
Nothing promotes intellect like intellectual discussion, and nothing promotes intellectual discussion so much as government by discussion.
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