The new system has not worked well because the central authority has too little power; but under the previous system the central authority was getting to have, and by this time would have had, no power at all.
Bagehot contrasts the power dynamics of the central authority under different systems.
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The power of free interchange of ideas being wanting, the ideas themselves were barren.
No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.
Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.
He could have found the truth as a statesman just as he found it when a judge; but he never did find it.
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