Walter Bagehot: “This extreme propensity to imitation is one great reason of the…”

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This extreme propensity to imitation is one great reason of the amazing sameness which every observer notices in savage nations.

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Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot explains that the strong tendency to imitate contributes to the uniformity observed in savage nations.

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