Walter Bagehot: “There is no better example of this quality in English statesmen than Lord Palmerston.”

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.

We have thus a whole group of ancient republics of non-Aryan race, and one which, being more ancient than the classical republics, could not have borrowed from or imitated them.

There is no ELASTIC element, everything is rigid, specified, dated.

All savage religions are full of superstitions founded on luck.