Walter Bagehot: “The answer is plain: they could lose it if they had it as an irrational propensity and habit, and not as a moral and…”

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

The whole history of civilisation, is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

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, to the effectual maintenance of such a separation, the exclusion of the President's Ministers from the legislature is essential.