Walter Bagehot: “Each predominant mind calls out a corresponding sentiment in the country: most feel it a little.”

Now it is not conceivable that a race of beings with valuable instincts supporting their existence and supplying their wants would need these simple tools.

But, above all things, they were frightened of 'the world;' the spectacle of nature filled them with awe and dread.

If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.

He gave an excellent moral example to his contemporaries, but he is an instance of those whose good dies with them, while their evil lives after them.