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The facts will be known to our children's children, though not to us.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot reflects on the enduring nature of historical facts and their impact on future generations.
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No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.
Now it is not conceivable that a race of beings with valuable instincts supporting their existence and supplying their wants would need these simple tools.
And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.
All savage religions are full of superstitions founded on luck.
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