Walter Bagehot: “Easily destroyed as are early free states by forces from without, they…”

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Easily destroyed as are early free states by forces from without, they are even more liable to destruction by forces from within.

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Bagehot emphasizes that early free states are more at risk from internal conflicts than external forces.

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