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If a political agitator were to lecture to the peasants of Dorsetshire, and try to excite political dissatisfaction, it is much more likely that he would be pelted than that he would succeed.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot suggests that political agitation is unlikely to succeed among the unpoliticized rural population.
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