Walter Bagehot: “The mystery of the Constitution, which used to be hated by our calmest, most thoughtful, and instructed statesmen, is…”

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

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.

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

All savage religions are full of superstitions founded on luck.