If we consider how much science has done and how much it is doing for mankind, and if the over-activity of men is proved to be the cause why science came so late into the world, and is so small and scanty still, that will convince most people that our over-activity is a very great evil.
Bagehot warns that humanity's over-activity has hindered the development of science and its benefits.
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And again, in political matters, how quickly a leading statesman can change the tone of the community!
And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.
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.
Nothing promotes intellect like intellectual discussion, and nothing promotes intellectual discussion so much as government by discussion.
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