Walter Bagehot: “The most important of these--slavery--arises out of the same early conquest as the mixture of races.”

But as soon as the House met, Lord Thurlow became the greatest.

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

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

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.