Walter Bagehot: “The most difficult of all political problems is to be solved--the people are to be at once thoroughly restrained and…”

In early society, originality in life was forbidden and repressed by the fixed rule of life.

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.

The power of free interchange of ideas being wanting, the ideas themselves were barren.

I do not think I put this too high when I say that a most important if not the most important object of early legislation was the enforcement of LUCKY rites.