Walter Bagehot: “Now the House of Lords will never consent to a very numerous life peerage without a storm; they must be in terror to do…”

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.

Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.

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

Now it is not conceivable that a race of beings with valuable instincts supporting their existence and supplying their wants would need these simple tools.