Walter Bagehot: “It ought to teach the nation what it does not know.”

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.

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

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

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.