Walter Bagehot: “An assembly--a revising assembly especially--which does not assemble, which looks as if it does not care how it revises…”

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.

But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.

The progress of the military art is the most conspicuous, I was about to say the most SHOWY, fact in human history.

And again, in political matters, how quickly a leading statesman can change the tone of the community!