Walter Bagehot: “But now comes the farther question: If fixity is an invariable…”

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But now comes the farther question: If fixity is an invariable ingredient in early civilisations, how then did any civilisation become unfixed?

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Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot raises the question of how civilizations that were once stable became unstable over time.

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Walter Bagehot: “But now comes the farther question: If fixity is an invariable ingredient in early civilisations, how then did any…”