Walter Bagehot: “To offer the Bengalese a free constitution, and to expect them to work one, would be the maximum of human folly.”

No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.

And, to the effectual maintenance of such a separation, the exclusion of the President's Ministers from the legislature is essential.

And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.

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