Walter Bagehot: “They have to guide the new voters in the exercise of the franchise; to guide them quietly, and without saying what they…”

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.

If the above reasoning be sound, compulsory constituencies are necessary, voluntary constituencies destructive; the optional transferability of votes is not a salutary aid, but a ruinous innovation.

In early society, originality in life was forbidden and repressed by the fixed rule of life.

Thirdly, we see why so few nations have made rapid advance, and how many have become stationary.