Walter Bagehot: “But the king's POLICY was wrong; he impeded the reaction instead of aiding it.”

The moderate people of every party must combine to support the Government which, on the whole, suits every party best.

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

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.

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.