Walter Bagehot: “All through the reign of William III. there was (in common speech) one king whom man had made, and another king whom God…”

Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.

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

In early society, originality in life was forbidden and repressed by the fixed rule of life.

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.