The first and most natural subject upon which human thought concerns itself is religion; the first wish of the half-emancipated thinker is to use his reason on the great problems of human destiny--to find out whence he came and whither he goes, to form for himself the most reasonable idea of God which he can form.
Bagehot reflects on the fundamental human quest for understanding existence and the divine.
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And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.
There is no ELASTIC element, everything is rigid, specified, dated.
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.
The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.
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