Walter Bagehot: “The rule of custom over them at least had been wholly broken, and the…”

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The rule of custom over them at least had been wholly broken, and the primary conditions of intellectual progress were in that respect satisfied.

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Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot notes the breaking of traditional customs as a crucial condition for intellectual progress.

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And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.

He could have found the truth as a statesman just as he found it when a judge; but he never did find it.

They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.

Thirdly, we see why so few nations have made rapid advance, and how many have become stationary.

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