But though under very different forms, the same essential causes--the imitation of preferred characters and the elimination of detested characters--were at work in the oldest times, and are at work among rude men now.
Bagehot identifies the enduring nature of social dynamics across different eras and societies.
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The work would be done so well that we should not want any one to look over or revise it.
No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.
They say, We reject your Bill for this once or these twice, or even these thrice: but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it.
The progress of the military art is the most conspicuous, I was about to say the most SHOWY, fact in human history.
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