Walter Bagehot: “It is on this account that the discussions of savage tribes have…”

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It is on this account that the discussions of savage tribes have produced so little effect in emancipating those tribes from their despotic customs.

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Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot argues that discussions among primitive tribes have had little effect on their liberation from oppressive customs.

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