Walter Bagehot: “In a country so rich in mind as England, far more intellectual power…”

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In a country so rich in mind as England, far more intellectual power can be, and ought to be, applied to the revision of our laws.

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Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot argues for the need to apply more intellectual resources to law revision in England.

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

There is no ELASTIC element, everything is rigid, specified, dated.

But all men heed great results, and a change of Government is a great result.

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

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