Walter Bagehot: “Alone among ancient nations they had the deference to usage which, combines nations, and the partial permission of…”

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

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

But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.

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.