Walter Bagehot: “The value of a discreet, calm, wise monarch, if such should happen to be reigning at the acute crisis of a nation's…”

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

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

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

If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.