Walter Bagehot: “Our legislation touches on all subjects, because our country contains all ingredients.”

They are solely concerned with his attractiveness as a candidate; they need not regard his efficiency as a ruler.

If the above reasoning be sound, compulsory constituencies are necessary, voluntary constituencies destructive; the optional transferability of votes is not a salutary aid, but a ruinous innovation.

No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.

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.